Opening Window Clear Main Window

Should be a simple question

[kriskd]

I'm still a newbie at javascript, so please bare with me. Hopefully the solution will be real simple. I have the following code:

</a> <a href="javascript:window.open('oldnews.html', 'displayWindow', 'width=680,height=400,scrollbars=yes')">Old News</a>

Works great, except when that smaller window is open the main window goes blank with just the text [object] on it.

What am I missing?

[kriskd]

Cancel my request. I found a tutorial that provided what I needed. I was missing the void operator.

[Bernard Marx]

Solution:

...scrollbars=yes'); [blue]void 0;[/blue]">

The page will go to the value of the last statement (it's an href). The [object] you are getting is the object reference (to the new window) returned by the open() method.

I think many here would in fact suggest this instead:

<a href="oldnews.html" onclick="window.open(..as before..);return false;">

If Javascript is enabled, it works normally, but the

return false

prevents the

href

link being followed. If JS is disabled, then the main page goes there instead, so at least they get there somehow.