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Popup links to Parent Window - backup?

idesign123

One of my clients has requested the following...
- Click a link to open a popup window
- Click links in the popup window to change content in parent window

I have this working well at the following test URL - http://pixgroup.com/popup/ (click the links and you'll see that they load in the parent window).

The problem is that if someone closes the parent window, the links in the popup window no longer work. Is there a way I can code this so the links open in the parent window... but open in a new window if the visitor has closed the parent window?

Here is the key code snippet...

<a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="window.opener.location.href='http://www.yahoo.com';">YAHOO

maurycy

<html><head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function openWindow(link) {
            if(window.opener !== null) {
                alert('open in opener');
                window.opener.location.href=link;
                return false;
            } else {
                return true; 
            }
        }
    </script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<p><a href="http://yahoo.com" onclick="return openWindow('http://yahoo.com');" target="_blank">YAHOO</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com" onclick="return openWindow('http://www.google.com')" target="_blank">GOOGLE</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.apple.com" onclick="return openWindow('http://www.apple.com')" target="_blank">APPLE</a></p></p>
</body></html>

idesign123

Your code worked perfectly - thank you SOOO much for your help!