The window.open method is used to open popup windows. It has the following 3 parameters
<script language="javascript"> var w=window.open(URL,'win_name',features); </script>
| Parameter Name | Description |
| URL | The url of web page to be opened in the popup |
| Name | Name of this window, if you want to refer it in javascript later |
| Features | A comma separated list of features like 'width=300px,height=400px,top=150px,left=100px,resizable=1' |
Below is the complete code to open a popup window
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Open Popup Window</title> <script language="javascript"> function openPopup(){ var features='width=500px,height=400px,left=300px,top=100px,resizable=0,scrollbars=1'; var w=window.open(URL,'win_name',features); var w=window.open('http://google.com','win1',features); if(w==null){ alert('Sorry! your browser is not configured to show popups'); } } </script> </head> <body> <input type="button" value="Open New Window" onclick="openPopup()" /> </body> </html>
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