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I want to open a popup window and disable the parent window. Below is the code that I am using; function popup() { popupWindow = window.open('child_page.html','name','width=200,height=200'); popupWindow.focus(); } For some reason, the parent window does not get disabled. Do I need some additional code OR what is the case? Again, I am looking for something similar to what we get when we use showModalDialog()..i.e. it does not allow to select parent window at all..Only thing is I want to get the same thing done using window.open Also please suggest the code which will be cross-browser compatible

I have an application that opens a new window on clicking a link. This spawns a page that holds a Java applet. The problem I am having is that clicking the same link reloads the page, which resets the Java application. Is there any way to trap this? Two solutions that would be acceptable are: Allow multiple windows to be opened from the click handler Ignore subsequent requests if the window is already open Apologies for being a Javascript newbie - it's not really my main thing. The code attached to the handler is function launchApplication(l_url, l_windowName) { var l_width = screen.availWidth

I am writing a Chrome extension, and I want a login window to be popped up when users click on the context menu so that user can input username and password. In Chrome extension, I only found chrome.pageAction.setPopup and chrome.browserAction.setPopup can be used to show popup windows, but they show popups only when the page action's icon or browser action's icon is clicked, not the context menu. Of course, I can use javascript prompt box to do this, but the problem is the password cannot be masked in the prompt box. So I am wondering if there are some other ways to create a popup window in