Little popup windows...HTML question

[Leo Robert Klein]

First, pop-ups are a thoroughly legitimate way to present small snippets of
information such as database descriptions.  In fact, to somehow cram them
into a full page of other material--as Thomas would suggest--might be just
as confusing to the proverbial "novice" user.

That said, you have to deal with the fact that many people might be
accessing the site from public terminals and an important consideration is
somehow getting rid of the things.  One approach is an Onblur statement
where as soon as the user clicks back on the main window, the popup window
closes.  The code would go into the body tag and would look like this:
	 onBlur="self.close()"

LEO

On Tue, 9 May 2000, "Robin Zalben" wrote: 
>
>> For our database list, I'd like to make small html files which give
>> descriptions of the databases.  Something where you would click on the
>"i"
>> and up would pop a small window with the basics of the database.
>>
>> This may be (hopefully) a simple question, but how can I make a new
>window
>> open up, and how can I size it so it is only the size of the
>information?


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