Open Browser Window Behavior - Why is hover cursor and I-beam vs finger?

Why do links that use the Open Browser Window Behavior create
an I-Beam when one mouses over while all other links display the
finger icon? The I-Beam is hard to see and not the "normal" thing a
visitor to a site expects to see when hovering on a link. Anybody
know what this is about?
I am attaching the code. At least I think I am...
And here is a page in a site I am working on that shows this
phenomenon:
Click
here.
The link I am referring to is in the body: "Let's try a Notes
Popup here"
Thanks!

Your A tag is missing its href atrribute, which in this case
should be
"popuptest_1.html" and then add ";return false;" after the
openBrWindow
call, so this:
<a style=""
onclick="MM_openBrWindow('popuptest_1.html','','resizable=yes,width=300,height=200')">Let
try a Notes Popup here.</a>
becomes this:
<a style="" href="popuptest_1.html"
onclick="MM_openBrWindow('popuptest_1.html','','resizable=yes,width=300,height=200');retu rn
false">Let's try a Notes Popup here.</a>
emichael brandt
Phil Dineen 2 wrote:
> Why do links that use the Open Browser Window Behavior
create an I-Beam when
> one mouses over while all other links display the finger
icon? The I-Beam is
> hard to see and not the "normal" thing a visitor to a
site expects to see when
> hovering on a link. Anybody know what this is about?
>
> I am attaching the code. At least I think I am...
>
> And here is a page in a site I am working on that shows
this phenomenon:
>
http://www.newcombat.net/style_list_reference.html
> The link I am referring to is in the body: "Let's try a
Notes Popup here"
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>

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I have a page with thumbnail images. I want to be able to
click the thumbnail and have a new window open with just that image
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select the Open Browser Window behavior, the only 3 options for
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You must always do the following when applying behaviors to
images:
1. Assign a link to the image first, even if it is a null
link. Use the
Property inspector to do this.
2. Click on the image in Design view, then click on the
<a> tag that you
see on the Tag inspector bar at the bottom of the document
pane so that the
anchor tag is selected.
3. Now apply your behavior.
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>I have a page with thumbnail images. I want to be able to
click the
>thumbnail
> and have a new window open with just that image in the
window. If I don't
> assign a link to the thumbnail, and select the Open
Browser Window
> behavior,
> the only 3 options for when to open the window are
onLoad, onError, or
> onAbort.
> I want it to be opened onClick. If I do assign a link to
the image, and
> then
> select the Open Browser Window behavior, it gives me the
option to open
> the
> window onClick. However, when I test it, it opens 2 new
windows - the one
> I
> want, and the one that is the link that I assigned to
the image.
>
> I can't figure this out! Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
>
> Sam
>

Open Browser Window Behavior

I am using the Open Browser Window behavior. When test on my
machine, it works fine in IE, Safari, Firefox and Navigator. When I
upload to my test server it does not open at the correct size in IE
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>I am using the Open Browser Window behavior. When test on
my machine, it
>works
> fine in IE, Safari, Firefox and Navigator. When I upload
to my test
> server it
> does not open at the correct size in IE 7 (did not test
earlier versions)
> and
> Safari 3. In both browsers, the new window is tiny,
whereas I am
> specifying
> 460 wide and 490 high.
>
> The code for this behavior is:
Chairman - John Andrews (<a href="#"
>
onclick="MM_openBrWindow('Bios&Roles/BioJMA.html','BioJMA','width=460,height
> =490')">bio</a>)</li>
>
> The page is at:
http://www.collabracom.com/Home-Test8/About/Index.html#
>
> I have the behavior inside a Tabbed Panel. The links for
this behavior on
> on
> the "Leadership" tab.
>
> John
>

Open Browser Window behavior not working in IE6 Win

Using DW 8 on Mac and can't get this Open Browser Window
behavior to work in IE 6 on a Windows machine. Any
suggestions?

This page is a GoLive page, and it throws a js error when it
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> I'm stuck! I'm using the open browser window behavior to
have a click
> through
> to a small photo on my site. I have defined the
dimensions and it works
> fine in
> firefox but in ie7 the browser window is too wide -
wider than the size I
> defined...
> Can anyone help?
> You can see the problem is you visit
>
http://www.dizigniz.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/anastasia/anastasia.htm#
and
> click on
> the 'view' button under 'Swatches'
>

A:hover with "open browser window" behavior?

Hi,
Is it possible to make a text link follow the a:hover style (CSS?) with the behavior of "open browser window"?
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http://alt-web.blogspot.com/2010/02/making-pop-up-window-in-dreamweaver.html
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I have linked files set to open in a 600x700 browser window when an image is clicked. Everything works fine, but when my cursor is over the image, there is no icon (cursor doesn't change to a hand) that indicates a linked file to the user. How can I fix this?
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Can't get Open Browser Window behavior to work.

Can anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? I don't know a lot of code and work
mostly in Design mode. I'm a new DW user having just begun importing sites from GoLive to DW.
Here's a page where they're not working: http://www.philasecurities.com/data/luncheon.html
The "more..." links are not opening new windows like they used to in GL.

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Why does "Open Browser Window" Behavior only give the option for "OnMouseOver"?

The title says it all. I want to use the OnClick behavior butit will not let me have that option. I can not figure it out, nor find anything on Google.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Ryan.

Which one?
2014.0 (June of last year)
2014.1 (October last year)
2014.1.1 (most recent)
If you don't have the "latest" the general blanket statement of "update to the most recent" will probably be what you get from any customer support personnel you reach.
Personally, I haven't gone past 2014.0 yet, and probably won't for a while.
In my CC 2014.0, the OnMouseOver is the default, but when I click it in the Behavior Panel to choose other options, they're all there.

How to get the text of an onclick/'open browser window' behavior to look like a link

If I set this behavior to a specific word (on an <a> tag without the 'href') the link is not underlined and the mouse does not turn into a pointer. If I set this behavior to a full <a> tag with the 'href="..."' then the browser opens a new window (as per the behavior) and a new page on the original window (as per the href="..."). How do I get the link to appear as a link (underlined and mouse changing into pointer) without having to assign a href="..." to the <a> tag?

Gary,
I appreciate the time you are giving me to address my question. However, even though I would like to have this link stand out to the viewer, I do not want it to stand out from all the other links that surround it. Also, I have tried the solution you have given me, yet it to also causes the browser to load the new window and the original page. There is no difference whether the behavior is linked to <a href> or some other tag as long as there still is an <a href> the original browser will load the new page as well.

Behaviors: Open Browser Window

When I have a link with behaviors to "open browser window" I
do get the new browser window opening up at the desired dimentions
that I specified. The problem is the main page too opens up that
same URL. How do I prevent it from doing so?

Wait - he removed that (as recommended originally) in later
posts in the
thread. Or maybe he didn't.
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"David Powers" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Edmond4 wrote:
>> it appears the SmartLink didin't insert or code it
right.
>
> There's nothing wrong with SmartLink. The answer, as
always, lies in the
> code:
>
> <td valign="top" class="p_videoTitle"
>
onmousedown="MM_openBrWindow('/port.html','Portfolio','width=750,height=600')">3D
> Demo Reel<br />
> <a href="/port.html"
>
onclick="dpSmartLink('/port.html',0,700,525,'c:16','s');return
> document.MM_returnValue">Watch in 2X
Size</a></td>
>
> The onmousedown attribute triggers MM_openBrWindow
whenever anyone clicks
> anywhere in that table cell. SmartLink has been applied
to a link inside
> that cell. Consequently, clicking the link triggers both
SmartLink and
> MM_openBrWindow. Remove the Open Browser Window behavior
from the table
> cell, and it will work the way you intended.
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Change cursor when using open browswer window behavior

Okay, I give. I added an "open browser window" behavior to a line of text, which is working. How do I get the cursor to change to a finger on rollover? Thanks!!!! ttt

You need to give the text a 'null' link, an example of which Nancy has written for your.
You may want to take a look at David's Smart Link extension:
http://foundationphp.com/tools/
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Open Browser Window Error

I use the Open Browser Window behavior with the <A>
onClick attribute for many images and text links on my site. Works
fine, UNTIL the page gets updated via a change on the main
template. Then the link gives me a javascript error. To fix I have
to pull up each page, open the behavior, OK to save and then resave
the page. No changes made, the code does not appear to change, but
then it works. As my site grows this is becoming more and more of a
nusiance to remeber to "fix" every page that has such behaviors on
it.
I have search the forum, but didn'[t come across a similiar
error. Has anyone seen this. Is there a fix
Thanks!

This means that your template does not contain the required
javascript for
the OpenBrowserWindow behavior in the head of the page. If it
did, then
every child page would contain the necessary code, and you
wouldn't have to
do the song and dance that you are doing.
Make sure it goes in a NON-EDITABLE region of the template
page.
The downside to this is that each page gets the code
(admittedly it's a
small bite) whether it needs it or not....
So - what you should do is open the particular page that has
just broken,
run through your procedure again (which writes the required
code into the
head of the page, and then copy that code (from
<script...> though
</script>), and paste it into the template page in the
same location. When
you save the template page, all child pages will be updated.
There's one nagging problem here, though. If the procedure
you describe is
working without error, then it is also true that DW is
writing that markup
into an EDITABLE region of the head of the page. If that's
the case, then
WHY IS A TEMPLATE UPDATE OVERWRITING THIS? I don't know -
would need to see
your page to know for sure....
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"JR-ITGUY" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I use the Open Browser Window behavior with the <A>
onClick attribute for
>many
> images and text links on my site. Works fine, UNTIL the
page gets updated
> via a
> change on the main template. Then the link gives me a
javascript error. To
> fix
> I have to pull up each page, open the behavior, OK to
save and then resave
> the
> page. No changes made, the code does not appear to
change, but then it
> works.
> As my site grows this is becoming more and more of a
nusiance to remeber
> to
> "fix" every page that has such behaviors on it.
>
> I have search the forum, but didn'[t come across a
similiar error. Has
> anyone
> seen this. Is there a fix
>
> Thanks!
>

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