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Introduction to Window Manipulation
Before learning how to open a window in JavaScript, you should know how to open one using HTML. In most recent browsers, you can open a new window using an href statement. For example, clicking on this link will open another window.
The HTML used to do this is:
clicking on <a
href="yer_new_window.html" target="yer_new_window">this
link</a> will open another window.
The important thing to know about windows opened by targeted links is that the window above now has the name "yer_new_window" associated with it. If you have another href that uses "yer_new_window" as the target, and you haven't closed the window yet, whatever URL you put in that link will open in the original window. If you want to see what I mean, click here and then open another HTML page in the same window.
For the purposes of this lesson, I'm going to call the target name, in this case yer_new_window, the name of the window.
Now that we've had this brief refresher on href targets, it's time to learn about opening windows in JavaScript.
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