HOW TO: Programmatically Open a Web Page in a New Window Using FrontPage 2000 (265316)

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This article illustrates the script required to open a Web page in a new window 30 seconds after it has been loaded in the current browser window.

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Open a Web Page Programmatically

To open a Web page in a new window following a programmed delay (for example, 30 seconds after being loaded in the current browser window), follow these steps:

Type the following script between the <HEAD> tags (on the HTML tab) of the Microsoft FrontPage 2000 web, and then edit the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) parameter to point to the Web page to be opened:

NOTE: You may receive an error message if you copy and paste this script directly from this article to FrontPage. The angle brackets ("<" and ">") may appear as XML code ("<" and ">"). To work around this behavior, paste the script in a blank Notepad document, and then copy it from Notepad before pasting it into FrontPage.

   <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
   <!--
   function wait() 
    {//this function is called by the BODY onLoad event
   	
     //calls the launch() function 
     //and sends it the URL parameter after 30 seconds

     //edit the URL parameter to point to the web page to be opened 

     setTimeout("launch('http://www.MyWeb.com/SomePage.htm')", 30 * 1000);}
   
   function launch(URL) 
   {//this function is called by the wait() function
	
   self.name = "opener";
	
      //opens another browser window to the specified URL parameter
      //new window opens to the specified size
    remote = open(URL, "remote", 
    "resizable,scrollbars,width=550,height=150,left=50,top=50");}

   // -->
   </SCRIPT>

You can also set the parameters for the dimensions and location of the new window.

Use the following <BODY> tag:
```
   <BODY onLoad="wait()">
					
```

When you preview the page in a browser, a new window containing the page's elements will open after 30 seconds.

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HOW TO: Programmatically Open a Web Page in a New Window Using FrontPage 2000 (265316)

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Open a Web Page Programmatically