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[caconner]

My experience with Javascript is severely limited, which is my disclaimer for the following question/problem.

I have to code links that take the user away from our site with a disclaimer and acknowledgement 'speed bump'. A link clicked on our site that leads to another will generate a pop up window with the verbiage and a button. After they click the button, they are redirected to the intended site. I cannot use server-side scripting with the host we use, but I read that variables can be passed between windows utilizing window.name.

I've decided to use an external file because as I refine this procedure, I need to set cookies that allow the user to choose not to display the message again. But at this point I just want to at least figure out how to accomplish this task before I confuse myself with the cookie issue, since I'm as inexperienced with cookies as I am with Javascript.

The external file includes the following code:

function openExt (id) {
if (window.name==link1) {
id="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.consumer.gov/"[/URL]
}

window.open("../scripts/speed-bump.html", "", "toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,width=600,height=500,scrollbars=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,top=0,left=0", id)
}

function go()
{
id=window.name;
window.location=id;
}

The link on our site is coded as follows:

<a href="javascript: openExt(link1)" id="link1">Consumer Info 
        from the Federal Government</a>

The code on the speed bump page button is:

<input type="button"  class="button" value="Ok" onclick="go()" />

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

 

[chessbot]

Personally, I would pass variables in the URL (faq216-5442).
Is "Link1" a string or a variable? If it is a string, put quotes around it!

Also, what is openExt()?

--Chessbot

There is a level of Hell reserved for probability theorists in which every monkey that types on a typewriter produces a Shakesperean sonnet.

 

[cLFlaVA]

Even better than quotes would be:

<a href="#" onclick="openExt(this.id); return false;" id="Link1">Consumer Info from the Federal Government</a>

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[cLFlaVA]

and, as chessbot said, you'll need to surround Link1 with quotes in your function.

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