Hi
I'm using Dreamweaver4 and had a question:
'On one page on my site I have a list of links. On clicking, each one opens a small browser window containing an image and accompanying text. If you then close this new window before opening another from the list of links all is well but if you leave the first window open and then click on another link, the first window minimises as the next one is opened.
If you don’t realise that this has happened it looks as though the first window has disappeared. If you then go back to its link and click again it doesn’t work – because it’s already open. This leaves the visitor thinking that the links don’t work properly any more: not good. I watched a friend test run my site and this is exactly what happened.
Is there a way of making the first browser window close when a new link is clicked or maybe stopping it from minimising?'
I got an answer;
"When you open this small window, give it a name (if you are using the
OpenBrowserWindow behavior there's a field to do that). Use this name as
the target for all of your links."
Trouble is, this makes the situation worse. If I give the same name to all of the new browser windows, clicking on the first link is fine but clicking on a second link, it closes the first but minimises the second. This makes it look as tho’ the second click has closed the first window but not opened the next one (if you don’t spot the new one is there but minimised).
Even if you do notice that the second window is there, you have to click again to open it. This means clicking at least twice to open every new window, which is clearly no good. Also naming all the windows the same messes with the window sizes so they mostly no longer fit the contents. Help!  |
