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Asked: 2026-05-22T22:07:18+00:00

What is causing some browsers to see my code as unsolicited? I have a

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What is causing some browsers to see my code as unsolicited?

I have a web site devoted to helping people with interactive sessions. It starts with the user clicking [Begin] so this is a consented action. This should (1) open a popup while (2) redirecting the first page to a end page as below : 

<head>  
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
      function openwindow(){window.open("{INTERACTION}","interaction","resizable=0,width=800,height=600,status=0");}</SCRIPT>
</head>   
<body>
<FORM action="end.php" method="{METHOD}" >  
<input type="submit"  class="button" 
       onClick="javascript: openwindow()" 
       value="Begin" />
</FORM>
</body>

As said, this is not trying to open an unrequested popup but some strains of IE and Chrome appear to be treating it as such. I have been trying to get a fix, most recently digesting this post.

In it Bobince comments

these days, you don’t really need to ask the question “was my unsolicited popup blocked?”, because the answer is invariably “yes” — all the major browsers have the popup blocker turned on by default. Best approach is only ever to window.open() in response to a direct click, which is almost always allowed.I’m quite happy to buy into this principle because I simply want my popup to open.

What is causing some browsers to see my code as unsolicited?

I’d appreciate any help you could give me. (as you might have guessed, client side is not my bag and this topic has been bugging me for ages).

Many thanks in advance (and fingers crossed)
Giles

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  1. Editorial Team

    No much you can do. You could ask your users to disable pop-up blockers or inform them that a pop-up blocker is enabled by checking the window object ref returned by window.open()

    e.g.

    var w = window.open('http://domain.com');
if(!w) { 
   //an alert in this example
   alert('oops..seems like a pop-up blocker is enabled. Please disable');
}

    you could find another way and try what Brad suggests.

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