How Do I Create A Window That Is Always On Top How do i create always on top pop window

[mahender 0]

How to create alway on top cross-browser pop window

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Edited November 3, 2005 by Becca (see edit history)

[Spectre 0]

I'll assume you are asking that as a question ('How do I...' would be more indicative of such than 'How to...').

 

Anyway, the simple answer is you can't. You cannot explicitly force a browser window to remain above other windows at all times. You can, however, exploit a little JavaScript to keep your window focused - but it would not work with all browsers, and may cause problems.

 

One option would be to focus the window on a timer basis, so that it focuses itself every x [milli]seconds. Another would be to instruct the window to focus itself on the body onblur() event. As I said, these would only work in some browsers (I would assume they would both be effective in Internet Explorer - assuming the worst for that browser is usually accurate), and could be prevented in any web browser by disablign JavaScript or selectively disabling certain JavaScript functions or events.

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this bit of code has always worked for me. It would be easier if you could say what version on browsers you want it to work with.<a href="file name" onclick="var popupwindow=window.open(this.href, 'popup', 'width=400,height=300,scrollbars,resizable'); popupwindow.focus(); return false;">Sample popup</a>If it doesn't work, then i would just look into the focus() parameters that do apply to the browser you want it to work with.Hope this helps.round