Problem with browser windows minimising

message from mojooz on 19 Jul 2004

Hi

On one page on my site I have a list of links. On clicking, each one opens a
small browser window containing an image and accompanying text. If you then
close this new window before opening another from the list of links, all is
well but if you leave the first window open and then click on another link, the
first window minimises as the next one is opened.

If you don?t realise that this has happened it looks as though the first
window has disappeared. If you then go back to its link and click again it
doesn?t work ? because it?s already open. This leaves the visitor thinking that
the links don?t work properly any more: not good. I watched a friend test run
my site and this is exactly what happened. He'd been clicking away merrily not
realising that most of the links were open and minimised. He then got
frustrated thinking that the links no longer worked.

Is there a way of making the first browser window close when a new link is
clicked or maybe stopping it from minimising?

I?d be very grateful for any insight into this problem.

Thanks.

Murray *TMM* replied to mojooz on 19 Jul 2004

When you open this small window, give it a name (if you are using the
OpenBrowserWindow behavior there's a field to do that). Use this name as
the target for all of your links.

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