I find it handy to open small content in a window. If I just have a small help file or something that really doesn't deserve a whole window I just create a link on my page that opens a small window with the page loaded in it. It's really very simple, but since I can never seem to find the script that works in both IE and Netscape I decided to post it here on Santry.com for easy reference. The first thing is to add a link on a page that points nowhere and then add the Javascript onclick event to the href tag that will then open a new window.
<a href="#" onClick="window.open('http://www.santry.com/help.htm', 'newWin','toolbar=no,location=no left=40 hight=100,scrollbars=yes,width=350,height=500');">
You can see when a user clicks on the hyperlink it will call the window.open procedure. In this procedure you can pass a variety of properties in order to display your window. First, is mandatory and that the url that you want to load. Then there is the name of the window, this is used when refering to the window again via scripting. The last property here is a string that defines the appearance of the new window, you can pass the size, position, features and other criteria here.
