Using location.href and a new window 1

[senglish]

I am using the code below to generate a url and I want it to open in a new window. This code displays it in the current window.

function CreateRSS(inform)
{
var RSStext = "

http://dcw.salisbury.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u="

location.href=RSStext + inform.options[2].value;
}
I am calling it from here
<INPUT type="button" value="Search Now" name="FormsButton1" onclick="CreateRSS(subheading);" size="20">
</INPUT>

How can I add the HTML equivalent of target="_blank" to open it in a new window please?
Thank you
Stephen

 

[dwarfthrower]

[tt]location[/tt] refers to the location object of the calling document. So replacing the [tt]href[/tt] of [tt]location[/tt] does what you are finding... sends the current browser window to the specified url.

To open a new window use the [tt]window.open()[/tt] method

function CreateRSS(inform)
{
var RSStext = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://dcw.salisbury.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u="[/URL]
var newWin = window.open(RSStext + inform.options[2].value, "newWin");
}

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