[RESOLVED] Cannot get alert() to work

**rtcary** · 04-25-2010 12:06 AM

I want to use a button with an onClick(), but I am missing something in the syntax. For testing, I am using the alert() function. Can you point out what I am missing?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<input name="btnOrder" type="button" value="Test" onClick="alert(\'Hello\'")>
</body>
</html>

Feeling a little dumb,

Todd

**tirna** · 04-25-2010 12:38 AM

maybe try:

Code:

 
<input name="btnOrder" type="button" value="Test" onClick="alert('Hello');" />

**rtcary** · 04-25-2010 08:25 AM

That works! However, when I go to the next step, open a window, my code is not working.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
<input name="btnOrder" type="button" value="Order"
onClick="openWindow('hawk_order.php','ordWindow','toolbar=no,status=yes,scrollbars=no,resizable=no'" />
</body>
</html>

**Fang** · 04-25-2010 08:32 AM

Missing closing bracket

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

<script type="text/javascript">
function openWindow(theURL,winName,features) {
window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input name="btnOrder" type="button" value="Order"
 onclick="openWindow('hawk_order.php','ordWindow','toolbar=no,status=yes,scrollbars=no,resizable=no');">
</body>
</html>

**rtcary** · 04-25-2010 09:28 AM

Fang - First, thank you! Second, my apologies. I consider this site to be a valuable resource, so I kick myself when I take "bandwidth" with dumb mistakes.
Todd

**rtcary** · 04-25-2010 10:52 AM

Fang -
Could you check my new post where I took the code that you helped me get working and placed it into a php page. There it does not work. Baffled!!

Todd

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