# Javascript pop-up not working in IE

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/javascript-pop-up-not-working-in-ie/80819>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [February 25, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/javascript-pop-up-not-working-in-ie/80819 "2005-02-25T00:28:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![radioxromance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@radioxromance](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/radioxromance)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/javascript-pop-up-not-working-in-ie/80819/1 "2005-02-25T00:28:16Z")

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IE fails me again.  
I am trying to make a simple pop-uop window using javascript, but can’t seem to get IE to do it.

```auto

<!-- at the top of the page in JS tags... -->
function newWindowFunc(url,name)	{
	window.open(url,name,'height=400,width=200');
}

<!-- My link -->
< a href="#" 
onClick="newWindowFunc('editProfile/styler/stylerfaq.php','Styler Help'); return(false);" >Read The FAQ< /a > 

```

This works fine in FF, but in IE nothing happens.  
It does work if I don’t use any params, just the link location. But what good is that, why not just use a target 😛  
I couldn’t find this in the forums, but there were lots of JS problems with popups so…  
Any ideas?  
Oh and I’ve tried it with a url in the href, and a return(false);, although that just makes the main page load the new url… ugh.