Popup a Window when Page Loads

The aim of this article is to pop-up a second window when our page loads.  We will be doing this be modifying the tag in the page and using the onLoad() parameter.  For clarity, and to permit easy eapansion of the code in the future, we shall call a JavaScript function called thisIsOnload().

Firstly modify the tag:

Now add the following into the part of the page, before the closing tag.

In the above I have assumed that our popup window page is located in the root directory of our website and that its name is popup.html.

We can improve the opening of our popup window by setting the size, turning off the decoration of the window.  To do this change we shall change our javascript code:

One last nicety to add to your popup window.  Lets add the word close, which when clicked will close our popup window.  For this add the following at the bottom of the page.

Close