HTML Help

nagoyapete · Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

Hello,

I have made buttons that link to a new page and it worked fine in Safari. But as soon as I try it in IE or Firefox I get the new page. But the browser opens two of the new windows showing exactly the same information.

what is wrong with my button?

<A HREF="BOOK2/ACT/ACT314.pdf" TARGET="_blank" ><INPUT TYPE=BUTTON NAME="PushButton1" VALUE="ACT# 314" STYLE="width: 1.37in; height: 0.2in"></A>

Any help and advice would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Peter

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4235 Location: MS

Do you have a form that the button is using when clicked since it has a name="" attribute? Are you using a frame page or HTML 4.01 Transitional doctype since you have used the target="" attribute?

Can't check button's action without an online link to it or a full URL in link tag.

nagoyapete · Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

Thankyou for replying

I don't have a form attached to the button, just the href.

I using HTML as a way of navigating around a CD-ROM containing a lot of pdf documents. I want it to feel like a website, but all the links / hrefs will point to a certain file on the CD-ROM, not to a website / web page

Hope this helps.

Peter

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4235 Location: MS

Well, that's going to be hard to troubleshoot. Using the target="_bank" is going to cause a new page to open, but why two from certain browsers is a poser. Without all the other code you are using, I am just going to suggest that you remove the target attribute and see what the reactions are for Firefox and IE. Both must be looking at something else in the coding that I can't see here. All browsers will be calling the PDF reader if there is one listed in the browser's list of associated programs. Possibly this may be triggering that call to the PDF reader plus the link's target is causing a separate call. Just a guess.

nagoyapete · Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

Thank you for your suggestion. I took it out but then it just opened in the same window!!

I went searching around, maybe another problem was that the Href was creating a window and the button was as well. However I did find the following

<form action="BOOK2/ACT/ACT314.pdf" method="post"
target="_blank">
<input type="submit" value="ACT# 314" STYLE="width: 1.37in; height: 0.2in" />
</form>

Which took care of the problem

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 4235 Location: MS

You're welcome. Nothing like a success post. Glad to hear you got it working.