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Asked: 2026-05-13T09:49:58+00:00

I got a portion of javascript code embedded in HTML (generated on the server

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I got a portion of javascript code embedded in HTML (generated on the server side) that looks like this:

function winWriteMail2(){
  var win = open('','wininfo', 'width=400,height=300,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');
  win.document.open();
  win.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><META http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2"><LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/main.css">');
  win.document.write('<scr' + 'ipt language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="/js/JSFILE.js"></scr' + 'ipt>');
  win.document.write('</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="#f7f3e7">');
  <!-- window content goes here -->
  win.document.write('</BODY></HTML>');
  win.document.close();
}

This code gets executed on click of a element.

The problematic part for me is the inclusion of javascript file – it works ok in Firefox and Chrome, but IE (7 and 8, as I tested) behaves strange. With the line containing JSFILE there, the window on click gets opened, but is empty, CPU is 100% busy and only way is to kill IE.

Anyone can help with handling this problem? Maybe I should use some other way to insert the javascript files in there?

I tried, instead of win.document.write(), the DOM-manipulation method, putting this part of code after win.document.close():

h = win.document.getElementsByName('head')[0];
js = document.createElement('script');
js.src = '/js/JSFILE.js';
h.appendChild(js);

but then the code isn’t loaded, even in Firefox (and inspecting with firebug doesn’t show it even can see it).

After some checks, I found out that the problem is caused by <script> elements with a src= attribute defined. If I add an inline script, like:

<script type='text/javascript'>alert('foo')</script>

within my document.write(), the window opens, the alert box shows up and everything’s all right.

But using a 

<script type='text/javascript' src='/js/foo.js'></script>

IE stalls when opening the new window, keeps using 100% of CPU.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This code worked for me:

    function winWriteMail2(){
    var win = open('','wininfo', 'width=400,height=300,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes');
    win.document.open();
    win.document.write('<HTML><HEAD><META http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2"><LINK rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/main.css">');
    win.document.write('</HEAD><BODY BGCOLOR="#f7f3e7">');
    win.document.write('this is the body content');
    win.document.write('</BODY></HTML>');
    win.document.close();

    var h = win.document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
    var js = win.document.createElement("script");
    js.type = "text/javascript";
    js.src = "js/scriptfile.js";
    h.appendChild(js);
}

    Here is what I needed to change in your code to make it work:

    //From
var js = document.createElement("script");
//To
var js = win.document.createElement("script");

    You need to create the script element in the same document that you are appending.

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