[WEB4LIB] raising open windows to the foreground

Thu Jan 23 10:11:03 EST 2003

Walter,

As noted, you must name the new window in your link. If the named window 
already exists when the link to it is clicked, a duplicate window will not 
open. However to bring the named window to the foreground, you'll need to give 
it the "focus" when it loads.

Document with the link:
<a href="newwindow.html" target="specialwin">Open new window</a>

newwindow.html body tag:
<body onload="self.focus()">

I'm not sure if this will solve your password problem, though. If a cookie 
stores user/pwd and whether currently logged in, should be ok.

Araby

_______________________________________
Araby Greene
Web Development Librarian
Getchell Library/322
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
araby at unr.edu
http://www.library.unr.edu

Quoting Walter Giesbrecht <walterg at yorku.ca>:

> I'm trying to figure out how to do something that is easy to 
> show, but hard (for me, at least) to explain clearly. What I want 
> to do is something like this:
> 
> A link in a document in browser window 'A' opens page '1' in a 
> new window 'B', which remains open. Later on, a link to page '1' 
> appears again in window 'A'. Can the user simply be transferred 
> to the still-open document in window 'B' (i.e., by having it 
> brought to the foreground) without having to load it again?
> 
> The reason for not wanting to load it again involves not wanting 
> to type in a username and password again; the method described by 
> the vendor of the database to pass along the username/password in 
> the URL deosn't seem to work. Any ideas?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Walter Giesbrecht                               walterg at yorku.ca
> Data Librarian
> York University, Toronto, CANADA
> 
> 
> 
> 

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