Strange behaviour opening pop-up window in Internet Explorer?

Ah, I think I got it... missed it in the description You are trying to open a non-modal window from a modal dialog in IE This AFAIK, should not work Try opening another modal window instead Effectively you are saying on window A, open up modal window B, now open up non-modal window C, which isn't really valid.

Ah, I think I got it... missed it in the description... You are trying to open a non-modal window from a modal dialog in IE. This AFAIK, should not work. Try opening another modal window instead.

Effectively you are saying... on window A, open up modal window B, now open up non-modal window C, which isn't really valid.

E.g. Does it contain quotes or line breaks?

Just updated the question. It contains "abcdefg" - without the quotes – BlackWasp Nov 4 '08 at 14:20 re-read question and posted new answer below. – scunliffe Nov 7 '08 at 17:01.

This code is simple. Use debugger and see what is going on. Check that site with FireFox or Chrome, they have JS debuggers.

Edit: Add try/catch block around window.open() and see if there is some exception there. Edit 2: I see now that you are sending characters as RequestId. You should check if that URL can handle that kind of value.

Since name is RequestId I'd say that there is big chance that there should be numeric only parameter. If that is correct, then it can happen that server side crashes when you try to open window and then nothing happens. Reason more to set try/catch block and test.

Unfortunately I can't use these browsers because they don't work with Dynamics CRM (unless I am missing something). – BlackWasp Nov 4 '08 at 14:20 Used the Visual Studio 2008 debugger. The window.

Open call is made but nothing happens :-( – BlackWasp Nov 4 '08 at 14:24 Javascript or HTML is probably IE specific. Maybe you could try to run it in one of the browsers and navigate to page in question. – zendar Nov 4 '08 at 16:02 Another idea - add try/catch around that code.

Put it into function and try to catch exception. – zendar Nov 4 '08 at 16:03 added try / catch - no error, no window – BlackWasp Nov 4 '087 at 22:16.

You might want to try Firebug lite, which will work for IE. getfirebug.com/lite.html The try/catch other people have mentioned is also a good idea. I think.

Additionally, is there any chance that the pop-up is trying to use a window that is already open but minimized. So it doesn't appear to be working but it's really just reloading the minimized window?

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