Posted by brucie on 11/05/05 22:09

In post <news:11mq3fdo60tko93@corp.supernews.com>,
Doug said:

[rearranged, please don't toppost]

>> what you want is a <evil>popup</evil> with the width and height specified
>> but many people use various means to block them.
>>
>> without knowing what you really want one for i can only recommend against
>> it because its evil and put you on my "people not to be saved" list when
>> armageddon arrives.

> I guarantee it has no evil intent.

sure, thats what they all say.

> All I want it for is to throw up a message in a pop-up (another page)
> that tells the user something like "fill in the cotton picken edit box."
> just like in the desktop world of programming.

hmmmmm... i think this would be more appropriate:

Javascript form validation – doing it right
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/formval.html

but don't forget you still need to validate server side.

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