form button in new window

[iluvperl]

I was looking how to get a form to launch a new window and found this working code.

<form action="" target="newFormWindow" onsubmit="window.open('hi there', this.target, 'width=685,height=500')">

What is the first brackets I used for 'hi there' used for? And what about this.target? When my window launches, it launches a page that doesn't exist and then redirects to my script. I am sort of confused at why it's doing that.

 

[kaht]

Your code isn't "working code" at all. All it does is open a new window, it doesn't submit the form at all so all values inputted to the form will be lost. All you have to do to submit a form to a new window is supply a value of _new to the target attribute:

<form action="" target="[!]_new[/!]">

-kaht

How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?

 

[iluvperl]

Actually, the code IS working code. It processes my form data and everything. So what does that first "" mean? Why is it redirecting before it gets to the form output?