HTML Help

GT-Phantom · Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 4

Love the site; however, the popup examples are not working correctly for me in FireFox (works ok in IE). The popup window opens; however it is blank/empty.

I'm running WinXP SP2 (all updates); FireFox 1.0.3; popup blocking OFF; JavaScript ENABLED; spyware blocker not running; no other programs running.

I'm an HTML nOOb, any help appreciated!

degsy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2440 Location: North East, UK

Which examples are not working. Give links.

I tried a few and they worked fine
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/linking/linking_famsupp_70.html

Quote: For example, this link opens a medium-sized popup window

GT-Phantom · Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 4

They all do the same thing - the popup window opens, but remains blank.

Here's one page (click on the link on this page)
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/linking/linking_famsupp_75.html

It's almost like the correct parameters are not being passed to the opened browser.

degsy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2440 Location: North East, UK

have you changed the example page/link for your own page?

GT-Phantom · Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 4

I don't understand why that should matter.

If I open the link referenced above using MSIE, then click on the link to display the popup, what I see in the popup is a page with the following text:

"Popup Window: Linking Back to the Opener
This is an example of a link in a popup window that refers back to the main window: "

If I do the same exact thing using FireFox, the popup window is completely blank. Even "view source" shows only the following (hope this doesn't screw up the view of this page):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><title></title></head><body></body></html>

It is as if it is "generating" a bogus blank page instead of showing the correct example page.

degsy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2440 Location: North East, UK

Works fine with my Firefox.

I could only assume it is a local problem. Have you tested other browsers such as Mozilla and Opera?

GT-Phantom · Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 4

My bad - and thank you for your patient assistance.

The URL for the page to be displayed in the popup contained the word "popup" which was being filtered by the FireFox AdBlock plugin (due to my clever inclusion of *popup* as a filter element).

I knew that AdBlock would block elements on a page; I had not known it would block the entire primary page URL!

:?