Different behavior in IE7

Posted By: adimare | Mar 12th, 2007 @ 3:10 PM
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#Mar 12th, 2007 @ 3:10 PM
adimare
adimare
hello, I'm having some trouble with IE7 and was wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue.

I'm currently working on a system that uses quite a lot of popups and have encountered with an issue, I present an oversimplified example.

The file popup.html conatains:

<html>
  <head>
    <script language='javascript'>
      window.onload = function (){ window.document.getElementById('inputThing').focus(); };
      function popup(){
        var newWindow = window.open('popup.html','','width=200,height=200');
      }
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <a href='popup.html' onclick="popup();">Click Me</a>
    <input id='inputThing' type='text'></input>
  </body>
</html>


In FF and IE 6 or lower, clicking on the link opens the popup, relocates the main window, and gives focus to the popup.
On IE 7, however (because of the focus event launched onload in the newly-opened main window), after the main page loads the focus is taken from the popup and given to the main window, causing the popup to get behind the window.
#Mar 12th, 2007 @ 4:06 PM
stevo_
stevo_
Casablanca != Manchester
As a matter of principal, I would always call focus on the popup window, just incase it is already opened, it will then cause it to come to the front anyway.

This may or may not fix your problem.

function popup(){
  var newWindow = window.open('popup.html','','width=200,height=200');
  newWindow.focus();
}
#Mar 12th, 2007 @ 4:40 PM
adimare
adimare
maybe that's the problem of putting up such an oversimplified example Tongue Out
The actual code includes the focus() call to the popup window, it won't work.

The popup gets the focus for a few seconds (depending on how long the main page takes to load), but as soon as the main page finishes loading, the popup is shoved behind it and focus is given to the main window.


Thank you for your input tho.
#Mar 15th, 2007 @ 7:50 AM
adimare
adimare
In any browser, if you call the focus() function to a given element in a given window; if the window is in the background, it will remain in the background until the users selects it. When selected (or alt+tabbed), the focus will be in the desired element. In IE7, however, giving focus to an element inside a window will also give focus to the window itself.
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