Linking to popup windows

You can create a link that displays an HTML topic in a popup window rather than in the default viewer. This kind of link supports HTML formatting, images, Dynamic HTML, related topics, and any other HTML features contained in the destination topic. These kind of links can be used with topics in your project (not with external topics, Web pages, or intranet sites.)

When users click the link, the popup sizes to fit the viewer and displays scroll bars for navigation throughout the topic content. Users click inside the popup to close it.

To create a link that opens in a popup window:

  1. In the WYSIWYG Editor, select the text or object where you want to add the link.

  2. Click Insert Popup . The hyperlink dialog opens and Display as Popup is selected by default.

  3. In the Selection Destination list, choose the file to display in the popup window.

Tip: Icons displayed at the Selection Destination list include: white_ico.gif HTML topics, bookmarks, globe_ico.gif Web sites, and frame_ico.gif framesets. Bookmarks are alphabetically sorted under the topics that include them. Web sites and framesets appear at the end of the list.

Notes:

  • When you create a popup, it automatically sizes to fit the window (you cannot change the height and width). If necessary, a scroll bar is displayed so users can navigate through the content.

  • Links in popup windows that link to other popup windows do not work when you try to access them from the HTML Help viewer or Internet Explorer. These links do display in the popup window when clicked from Netscape Navigator, however.

  • Popup links are now based on new Dynamic HTML technology, so it is no longer necessary to ship and register POPUP.OCX and MFC42.DLL with your Help projects that use popups.