setting up a new window/reflected page

by Nathan Lyle <natlyle(at)nmu.edu>

Date:	Tue, 15 Aug 2000 23:34:32 -0400
To:	hwg-techniques <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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Javascript question:

Right now I have a page with links that pops open a smaller window that
contains misc. info related to that link. Originally, I had tried to create
the text for that new page via javascript and then import that into the
command to open a new window. I thought I'd seen this done somewhere
before. I tried a bunch of ways (like  var new_text = "<html><body
bgcolor=#ffffff>...etc.";   open(new_text,"New page","");) and various ways
of jiggling the command structure to get that approach to work, only it
never did.

The way I have it now, I open the new window, then the script in the
original page just writes to that window. This works, but my curiosity
isn't satisfied. Am I right in thinking there's a way to pack javascript
relfected HTML into a variable and then into the open() call?

Thanks for any ideas....

~Nathan Lyle - Web Design/Instruction

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