I want to be able to open a popup using window.open and subscribe to page events (onload etc) of the popup in the opener. So i'd want a method in my opener (parent page) to execute when the popup's onload or ready fires. Is this possible using plain js or jquery? Pls don't ask me why i want to do this - this can solve a lot of issues for me.
First page (x.html):
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<script>
var w = window.open('y.html', 'w');
w.document.getElementById('target').onclick = function () { alert('!'); };
</script>
</body>
</html>
Second page (y.html):
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<button id="target">target</button>
</body>
</html>
Works for me...
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I just started learning Javascript, and I know next to nothing. I am trying to attached an onclick event to an element in my HTML.
var joinList = function() {
alert("This should display when clicked");
}
document.getElementById("header").onclick = joinList;
This is my code so far. Nothing happens when the element with the ID of header is clicked on. What am I doing wrong?
the following is my HTML code
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Testing Page</title>
<script src="testing.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="header">Andrew Dawson</h1>
</body>
</html>
The issue is, that you try to load a html element, which does not "exists" when the javascript function is executed, because the dom has not finished loading.
To make your code work, you can try following solutions:
Place your script tag below in the HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Testing Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="header">Andrew Dawson</h1>
<script src="testing.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Add an event handler to check if the window element is ready:
window.addEventListener("load", eventWindowLoaded, false);
function eventWindowLoaded(){
var joinList = function() {
alert("This should display when clicked");
}
document.getElementById("header").onclick = joinList;
}
Another solution would be to use jquery framework and the related document ready function
http://api.jquery.com/ready/
I think the solve you are looking for is
var joinList = function() {
alert("This should display when clicked");
}
document.getElementById("header").setAttribute("onclick", joinList);
Your code seems straight forward, maybe your script is running before the DOM fully loads. To keep it simple across all browsers we can place a self executing anonymous function at the end to initiate all your scripts after DOM loads.
<html>
<title></title>
<head></head>
<body>
html here!!
<script>
(function() {
//Any other scripts here
var joinList = function() {
alert("This should display when clicked");
}
document.getElementById("header").onclick = joinList;
})();
</script>
</body>
</html>
The above is purely javascript, not to be confused with the shorthand (see below) of the jquery "document onready" function (you would need to add jquery to your pages).
$(function() {
//your javascript code here
});
Why using self executing function?
I wrote the following code in JavaScript to open a popup window when a button is pressed, and then use setInterval to move the window every 2 seconds.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset = "utf-8">
<title> Javascriptin' Some Codes </title>
<script>
function hi() {
var printOut = window.open("http://www.google.com","_blank", 'height=200, width=200');
setInterval(function() { printOut.moveBy(10,10);}, 2000)
window.alert("hi");}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<button onclick="hi()"> Try me </button>
</body>
</html>
The window opens, but the setInterval doesn't appear to work- the window does not move after being launched. I was wondering why my code doesn't work, and what I could do to make it function the way I'd like it to.
The opened url has to be on the same domain as stated in this answer (DEMO).
For example on jsfiddle, this works:
var printOut = window.open("http://fiddle.jshell.net","_blank", 'height=200, width=200');
And that one doesn't:
var printOut = window.open("http://www.google.com","_blank", 'height=200, width=200');
You should also remove the alert, although it works in chrome it seams to break it in for example opera.
In Javascript, I want to open my window.html file in a popup window. But it doesn't display any text. Just a blank page.
This is index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
<script language="javascript">
var newwindow;
function popit(url){
newwindow = window.open(
url, '', "status=yes, height=500; width=500; resizeable=0");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
CLICK ME!
</body>
</html>
window.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p>SAMPLE TEXT</p>
</body>
</html>
Why doesn't it display any text?
javascript:popit(window.html);
Replace with:
javascript:popit('window.html');
Your click handler code is syntactically incorrect:
CLICK ME!
Always, always have your developer console open to check for JavaScript errors! (edit — actually in this case there wouldn't have been an error; window.html would resolve to undefined probably! Still, keep the console open :-)
Also note that I used an "onclick" attribute instead of "href".
A GOOD working code with NO crashes.
Simple and what makes this code better is that you can use it in a JavaScript file separately and have it fairing to more then one file with the same popup size even though its different pages on popups.
Javascript
// Popup window code
function MyPopUp(url) {
popupWindow = window.open(
url,'popUpWindow','height=454,width=580,left=0,top=200,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,toolbar=yes,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes')
}
HTML
My PopUp
NOTE: You can also use this as onload in body for example <body onload="JavaScript:MyPopUp('MyDirectory/Page.html');"> and it will aslo work on onmouseover and others... though I do not advise this unless you want to piss off the clients visiting your page.
*Update: Ultimately I've decided that accomplishing exactly what I want here isn't possible due to the issues it poses to security. Kalle's answer below gives a solution that is closest to what I want to accomplish.
In order to solve my problem I've created scripts on both pages and will use a sort of push notification that is routed through the server in order for them to communicate.
Thanks for the help!! *
I have two pages. Both windows already exist independently. Page two has a function declared in JS.
I would like to be able to call the function in window two by clicking a link in window one.
Page 1:
<html>
<head>
<title>This is a title!</title>
</head>
<body style="background: lightblue">
Click Me!
</body>
Page 2:
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Window-target" CONTENT="my_target" />
<title>This is a title!</title>
<script type=text/javascript>
function clicked() {
alert('test');
}
</script>
</head>
<body style="background: lightblue">
</body>
Since it is on the same domain you can get this to work but would have to change the way you were doing it a little.
First off you would have to open it in a popup using this syntax rather than a new tab:
newwindow=window.open(url,'name','height=200,width=150');
and then you could simply call newwindow.clicked() after the popup is called.
update
just did a quick test and this will open it in a new tab. (sorry its been a while since I used the open function.
newwindow=window.open(url,'name');
Just noticed also that you should wait for the popup to load. So in my Example it would look a little something like this (with jQuery):
var newwindow = window.open('http://www.tylerbiscoe.com/vb/new.html');
$(newwindow).load(function(){
newwindow.clicked();
});
Ok, brand new answer. I hope this is what you were thinking. This is however, when you open page 2 from page 1.. So basically, page 1 would know who page 2 is..
Online example: http://kopli.pri.ee/stackoverflow/6832271.php
Page 1
<html>
<head>
<title>Page 1</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<style>
.ajaxlink {color: blue; cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 1px dotted blue;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<span id="open_page_2" class="ajaxlink">Open new window</span>
<br>
<br>
Click Me!
<script>
$('#open_page_2').click(function(){
child = window.open('test2.php','page_2','width=600,height=600');
});
$('a[target=my_target]').click(function () {
child.SecondPageFunction();
return false;
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Page 2
<html>
<head>
<title>Page 2</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Your seeing page 2!</h1>
<script>
function SecondPageFunction () {
alert('Second page action got triggered!');
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
The script must be a part of the page you're opening in the new window. You're absolutely correct about it being a security flaw if it was elsewise allowed.
You could add some query string argument that could be picked up onload by javascript in the page you are opening and call your function if the query string arg is present.
Why is it so that when you use window.parent.showMessage("Video Is OK"); inside a .js file you've included on a page, it won't work, but only if it's on the page itself..?
Can you fix this?
There are two scenarios that I can think of where you'd want to use window.parent. The first is when you have a window open another window using window.open. The other is where the first window uses an iframe to load a page. In the former case, it appears as though you actually want to use window.opener, as ukostin has said. In the latter case, window.parent works fine. Both methods work properly whether the code is inline or loaded from an external JS file. Here are some tests:
POPUP
parentWindow.htm:
<html>
<head>
<script>function showMsg(msg){alert(msg);}</script>
<body>
Open
</body>
</html>
externalWindow.js:
function showMsgExternal(msg){window.opener.showMsg(msg);}
childWindow.htm:
<html>
<head>
<script>function showMsgInline(msg){window.opener.showMsg(msg);}</script>
<script src="externalWindow.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
Inline
External
</body>
</html>
IFRAME
parentFrame.htm:
<html>
<head>
<script>function showMsg(msg){alert(msg);}</script>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="childFrame.htm" width="300" height="100"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
externalFrame.js:
function showMsgExternal(msg){window.parent.showMsg(msg);}
childFrame.htm:
<html>
<head>
<script>function showMsgInline(msg){window.parent.showMsg(msg);}</script>
<script src="externalFrame.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
Inline
External
</body>
</html>
Try to use window.opener as link to the parent window.