window.open javascript on button causes parent window to display blank page

Question

In Captivate 3, I've created a Text button that executes the
following Javascript:

window.open('stakeholder_part2.htm','', 'fullscreen=yes,
scrollbars=auto');

The Javascript works perfectly, but when it executes, the
page in the parent window goes blank except for the word "object"
in square brackets. Hitting the back button in my browser navigates
back to the Captivate movie.

I've tried every combination of settings I can think of in
the button dialog. Currently I have "top" selected in the window
dropdown, and "Continue playing project" disabled. The only setting
that didn't work at all is "New" ("Current" and "Parent" both
generated the results described above).

Could this have something to do with the fact that the
javascript launches the new window in fullscreen mode?
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jbradley88 · Answer

You could try wrapping your function in a call to void(), which basically says "don't return a value when evaluating this".

It would look like this:

void(window.open('stakeholder_part2.htm','', 'fullscreen=yes, scrollbars=auto'));

Unless you really want to open a different new window each time the function is called, you should also specify a name for the new window, as in:

void(window.open('stakeholder_part2.htm','newWin', 'fullscreen=yes, scrollbars=auto'));

The browser will check for an open window with this name and show the page in that window if it's still open.

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