Question

I am developing a javascript application which – among a lot of other controls – contains a button. When clicking this button I need to open a new window with an URL based on some selections made in the control and this I have made with a simple code

window.open(myurl);

The generated URL could end up like this “domain.xx/page#anchor”, this works as expected in FF, but IE totally ignores the anchor – the page is not correct positioned and the anchor is not even shown in the URL.

I can solve this writing my code like this

var test = window.open();
test.location.href = myurl;

the codes opens the window as expected, but inserting the URL and loading the page is very slow and therefore gives a bad user experience.

Any ideas how to make this better?

Answer 1

Last time I targeted IE (which is quite a while ago) the trick was to have a

<form action="http://domain.xx/page#bookmark" method="get" target="_blank" name="foo"></form>

and do

forms['foo'].submit()

on click.