# Pop up window from html text field

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pop-up-window-from-html-text-field/46360
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**Created:** [March 23, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pop-up-window-from-html-text-field/46360 "2004-03-23T19:48:43Z")
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### Author: ![potamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@potamus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/potamus)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pop-up-window-from-html-text-field/46360/1 "2004-03-23T19:48:43Z")

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I’ve found lots of posts and tutorials on this general subject but nothing addressing this particular problem.

I want to support clickable images in my html text fields. The image thumbnails when clicked will open up a copy of themselves in a larger “new” window. I’ve done this in straight html b/f with no problems but i’m getting some interesting behavior when I try it from the flash html text fields.

a simplified example

the following html code lives in an external text file which is dynamically loaded into an html text field

please excuse the syntax errors, had to do it b/c the HTML Code is enabled and I couldn’t figure out how to disable it.

anchor hreference=“javaascript:window.open(‘[http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com)’)”  
image src=“images/thumbnail.jpg”  
/anchor

click on the image and the new window is created successfully, however, we lose the parent. The parent window displays

[object]

with

javaascript:window.open(‘[http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com)’) shown in the location bar.

hmmmm, any insight much appreciated.

thanks

potamus