window.focus() not working in Google Chrome

Question

Just wondering if Google Chrome is going to support window.focus() at some point. When I mean support, I mean have it work. The call to it doesn\'t fail, it jus

Answer 1

I fought this in Chrome. I wanted a popup window to display when the user clicked a link on the parent screen. Works the first time the popup window is displayed, but once the popup loses focus, javascript can't bring it back to the front again; you must manually click on the window. Here is what worked for me. This script is the parent window (the one with the links). As you can see, I put it at the end of the HEAD section::

All links are . If the user does not close the popup window manually, it is closed when the parent window regains focus. So the popup is destroyed and re-created every time. Seems kinda convoluted, but it works for me.