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  setTimeout and onclick Bootleg Bart <jknmp@axcop.org> - 2012-02-23 05:55 -0600
    Re: setTimeout and onclick Bootleg Bart <jknmp@axcop.org> - 2012-02-23 06:57 -0600
      Re: setTimeout and onclick Bootleg Bart <jknmp@axcop.org> - 2012-02-23 07:42 -0600
    Re: setTimeout and onclick Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-23 14:58 +0100
      Re: setTimeout and onclick Bootleg Bart <jknmp@axcop.org> - 2012-02-23 08:48 -0600
        Re: setTimeout and onclick Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-23 15:59 +0100
      Re: setTimeout and onclick Bootleg Bart <jknmp@axcop.org> - 2012-02-23 08:51 -0600
        Re: setTimeout and onclick Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-23 15:55 +0100

#12087 — setTimeout and onclick

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.


<area coords="159, 110, 234, 127"
href="javascript:v6('securitydetails.htm','_blank','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=780,height=690,top=0,left=0')"
onclick="setTimeout(window.location.href='360v6.htm', 500)"
shape="rect" />

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#12090

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:55:40 -0600, Bootleg Bart <jknmp@axcop.org>
wrote:


I changed the onclick to -  onclick="allLinks('360v6.htm')"

function allLinks(link){
window.location.href = link; 
}

And the same thing as described below. FireFox doesn't open a new
window or tab.


>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.
>
>
><area coords="159, 110, 234, 127"
>href="javascript:v6('securitydetails.htm','_blank','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=780,height=690,top=0,left=0')"
>onclick="setTimeout(window.location.href='360v6.htm', 500)"
>shape="rect" />

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#12092

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:57:31 -0600, Bootleg Bart <jknmp@axcop.org>
wrote:

I put the files online and it works fine with FireFox. Weird!


>On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:55:40 -0600, Bootleg Bart <jknmp@axcop.org>
>wrote:
>
>
>I changed the onclick to -  onclick="allLinks('360v6.htm')"
>
>function allLinks(link){
>window.location.href = link; 
>}
>
>And the same thing as described below. FireFox doesn't open a new
>window or tab.
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>
>><area coords="159, 110, 234, 127"
>>href="javascript:v6('securitydetails.htm','_blank','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=780,height=690,top=0,left=0')"
>>onclick="setTimeout(window.location.href='360v6.htm', 500)"
>>shape="rect" />

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#12094

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)

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#12103

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:58 +0100, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars@web.de> wrote:

Thanks a lot, PointedEars. That worked. I use the setTimeout because
it was my understanding that when using more than one instruction,
when they're rendered too quickly, it may cause one of them not to
work. I try to slow down the second instruction a little. That may be
out of date now but I'm still doing it.



>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

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#12106

Bootleg Bart wrote:

> Thanks a lot, PointedEars. That worked. I use the setTimeout because
> it was my understanding that when using more than one instruction,
> when they're rendered too quickly, it may cause one of them not to
> work. I try to slow down the second instruction a little. That may be
> out of date now but I'm still doing it.

You are mistaken.  window.setTimeout() was never necessary in that context.

You need to learn to post, in particular how to quote.

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


PointedEars
-- 
> If you get a bunch of authors […] that state the same "best practices"
> in any programming language, then you can bet who is wrong or right...
Not with javascript. Nonsense propagates like wildfire in this field.
  -- Richard Cornford, comp.lang.javascript, 2011-11-14

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#12104

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:58 +0100, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars@web.de> wrote:

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

One other thing concerning the spaces; that has nothing to do with
anything. You need to read a different manual.

>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

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#12105

Bootleg Bart wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> RTFM.  There are not supposed to be spaces in that attribute value.  Some
>> parsers are more forgiving than others.
> 
> One other thing concerning the spaces; that has nothing to do with
> anything. You need to read a different manual.

You need to learn (X)HTML, and the importance of Valid markup in general, in 
particular with Web scripting:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/objects.html#adef-coords>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-map-element.html#attr-area-coords>


PointedEars
-- 
    realism:    HTML 4.01 Strict
    evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
    madness:    XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
                                                    -- Bjoern Hoehrmann

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