Webmaster Forum / HTML, CSS, Scripts / JavaScript / August 2007

I have this pop up window code:

<script type="text/javascript">
function popUp(obj){
var win=window.open(obj.href,obj.innerHTML,"width=500,height=500");
alert('This test alert will not pop in IE');
win.focus();
return false;
}

</script>

<a href="somepage.html" onclick="return popUp(this)">Some Page</a>

  That does not work in my version of IE (IE 6.0, no popup blockers).
It seems like the function returns true at the window.open without
opening a new window. Other browsers are OK.

  Is there something I'm overlooking in this stupid little bit of
javascript? Or is my IE broken? Perhaps there's a cleaner way to do this?

  Jeff