This plugin is no longer being developed or supported. It is recommended that you discontinue the use of this plugin and find an alternative, if applicable.
Overview:
Open Browser Window opens a new browser window with the URL of the page that you specified using JavaScript.
Opening a page in a new window using JavaScript is a preferred method over using target="_blank"
due to XHTML compliance issues. You have the option to choose the features as well as choose if you want it to be centered.
Features
- Easy to use and edit.
- Uses JavaScript to open the Window, hence keeps your site XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1 compliant.
- Function can be called multiple times on the same page.
- All features of the window to be opened can be set using JavaScript.
- If required, the window can be auto-centered on the screen.
- A title can be given to the new window, which is also used as
alt
andtitle
attributes for the image. - The window that is opened is perfectly XHTML compliant.
- It works perfectly if you serve your site as
application/xhtml+xml
. - You can use the Quicktags button to insert the necessary code while writing a post / page.
Requirements:
- WordPress 2.0 or above
Installing
- Download Open Browser Window Plugin.
- Extract the contents of
ald-openbrwindow.zip
to/wp-content/plugins/
folder. - Activate the Plugin.
The JavaScript Function:
ald_OpenBrWindow(theURL, winName, features, myWidth, myHeight, isCenter, myTitle)
- theURL – The URL you want to open in the window.
- winName – Name of the window to be opened.
- features – The features of the windows. viz. The following features are available in most browsers:
toolbar=0|1
: Specifies whether to display the toolbar in the new window.location=0|1
: Specifies whether to display the address line in the new window.status=0|1
: Specifies whether to display the browser status bar.menubar=0|1
: Specifies whether to display the browser menu bar.scrollbars=0|1
: Specifies whether the new window should have scrollbars.resizable=0|1
: Specifies whether the new window is resizable.
- myWidth – Specifies the width of the new window.
- myHeight – Specifies the height of the new window.
- isCenter – Set to
true
to center the window. - myTitle – Specifies the title of the new window. Also used for image
alt
andtitle
attributes.
ChangeLog:
- 1.2.2 – Fixed minor bug in quicktags
- 1.2.1 – Updated for WordPress 2.7 and for the WordPress Plugin Repository. Added quicktags button.
- 1.0 – Release
Downloads
Current Version is 1.2.2
License
All files and their contents are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).