hey.. i've got a page with a form. let's say this is the form <form.....> <select name="number"> <option value="1">.. <option value="2">.. <option value="3">.. </select> <select name="buy"> <option value="orange">.. <option value="apple">.. <option value="car">.. </select> Code (markup): you select the number of items you want to buy and then you select what you want to buy... i want a popup when the user selects car to let the user know that there are taxes on cars.. since there are no taxes on apples or oranges the popup is not needed for them.. instead of using a popup i have absolutely set a div over top of the form with the tax message and confirm/cancel buttons... when the page is loaded the tax message is set with visibility = hidden and the rest of the page visible.. when someone chooses car i reverse the visibility.. and the user chooses confirm/cancel to once again reverse visibility.. the problem i'm having is that within the tax message text i have a link which opens a popup to explain the tax.. in IE6(maybe more) as soon as you click this link the popup opens but the opener page gets destroyed.. the scroll bar on the right is frozen and you're sent to view the top of the page, which is currently hidden (white screen).. the only way i can get back to the tax message to hit confirm/cancel is by scrolling down with my mouse.. which will not be obvious to users. my immediate reaction was to add a <body onunload="window.opener.getElementById('theform').focus();"> to the popup but this appears to do nothing kind of a hard problem to describe, hopefully you get the gist of it
DISREGARD this post.. i found a solution.. sorry to anyone who put any time into trying to figure out what i meant in my post