Prevent scroll in parent window?

[macounsr webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

My page consists of a large graphic (an organization chart). I'm using an image map with hotspots to allow the user to click on any node of the organization chart, then a window pops up with explanatory text, etc. next to the node. When the user clicks anywhere outside the popup window, it automatically closes. All this (javascript) works correctly, with one annoyance: If the user has scrolled down to see the bottom of the chart, then clicks on one of the hotspots at the bottom, the popup window appears but the main window scrolls back up to the top. Is there a way to prevent this?

Thanks,

Susan Robbins

[David R. Wheeler]

How are you linking your hotspots? Can you post a code snippet?

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[Gary White]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 02:00:10 +0000 (UTC), "macounsr"
[email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

>My page consists of a large graphic (an organization chart). I'm using
>an image map with hotspots to allow the user to click on any node of
>the organization chart, then a window pops up with explanatory text,
>etc. next to the node. When the user clicks anywhere outside the popup
>window, it automatically closes. All this (javascript) works
>correctly, with one annoyance: If the user has scrolled down to see
>the bottom of the chart, then clicks on one of the hotspots at the
>bottom, the popup window appears but the main window scrolls back up
>to the top. Is there a way to prevent this?

That's because you used the octothorpe # as the URL for the link. Some
browsers interpret that as a link to a named anchor on the page, but
there is no anchor that matches it because no name is specified. See
[url]http://apptools.com/rants/popups.php[/url].


Gary

[macounsr webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks! Changing the link field from "#" to "javascript:;" did the trick.