Question

I wish to have a link which opens popup when clicked however I wish it to open a page in a new window if the user doesn’t have JS enabled.

The following doesn’t seem to work,

<a id="tac-link" target="_blank" href="tac.html">terms and conditions</a>

function popUp(URL) {
day = new Date();
id = day.getTime();
    eval("page" + id + " = window.open(URL, '" + id + "', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=1,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=550,height=600,left = 445,top = 150');");
    }

$('tac-link').click(function() {
    popUp('tac.html');
    return false;
});

Answer 1

In order to make this functionality more browser-compatible, you need to pass the event object to the click handler, then call e.preventDefault();.

example:

$( '#button' ).click( function( e ) {
    //... your code...

    e.preventDefault();
    return false;
} );