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Bootleg Bart wrote:

> onclick works and changes the self location in IE and Chrome. A new
> window is also opened with the href="javascript:v6" in IE and Chrome.
> 
> FireFox - onclick changes the self.location but doesn't open a new
> window.What am I doing wrong? Thanks.

_Firefox_

> <area coords="159, 110, 234, 127"

RTFM.  There are not supposed to be spaces in that attribute value.  Some 
parsers are more forgiving than others.

> 
href="javascript:v6('securitydetails.htm','_blank','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=780,height=690,top=0,left=0')"

Please read the FAQ on `javascript:' URIs.

<http://jibbering.com/faq/>

> onclick="setTimeout(window.location.href='360v6.htm', 500)"
> shape="rect" />

This assigns '360v6.htm' to window.location.href, which causes navigation 
*before* setTimeout() is called (as the assignment is the expression that 
makes up the argument).  If you are lucky, setTimeout() can be called; if 
not, a TypeError exception will be thrown because the object previously 
referred to by `setTimeout' has already been destructed because of 
navigation.

In general, you are looking for

  window.setTimeout(function () { window.location = '360v6.htm'; }, 500);

although that does not make much sense here.  Why do you want to slow down 
the user?


PointedEars
-- 
Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are
positively harmful for cross-browser scripting.
  -- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> (2004)