Parent and Child window problem 1

[iMediaX]

Hi All

I am a novice to Javascript, so this question might sound silly to most of you guys. Let me first describe what the situation is:

I have a form on the parent window. when the user clicks on the submit button, a new window pops up (ie a child window that displays a different asp page). Now depending on the selected inputs from the form, the child window will display a table of data. One column of each row in this table contains a hyperlink, which when click will change the parent's location (i.e window.opener.location).

The problem I have is that after the user clicks on the hyperlink, the parent window's location gets change but so does the child window's location. What I want is for the parent window's location to change but the child window's location to stay the same. And also I dont want the child window to close either.

I hope my description is not too vauge. Highly appreciated for any help on this.

Thanks guys

Regards

Kevin

 

[dwarfthrower]

It's probably to do with the way your hyperlinks are set up in the child window.

If you have:

<a href=&quot;someurl&quot; onclick=&quot;someJavaScriptFunction()&quot;>

Then the browser interprets this as: When someone clicks this link, first go and do someJavaScriptFunction(), then take the current browser window to someurl.

A couple of alternate methods:

<a href=&quot;someurl&quot; onclick=&quot;someJavaScriptFunction(); return false;&quot;>
<a href=&quot;#&quot; ononclick=&quot;someJavaScriptFunction()&quot;>
<a href=&quot;javascript:someJavaScriptFunction()&quot;>

Hope this helps you out.

 

[iMediaX]

It worked!! Thanks for your help!! By the way, this forum rocks!

Regards

Kevin