Why are windows opening as if base target is being used?

[paintedjazz]

I am using the following javascript to make a popup menu allow the
user to navigate to different pages on a website.
Yet it is opening windows as if I have <base target="some-name">
defined in the body.

<script language=javasc ript>
<!-- Begin
function navigate()
{
open(document.p opupForm.popup. options
[document.popupF orm.popup.selec tedIndex].value,"content ");
}
// End -->
</script>

This is the form:

<form name="popupForm ">
<select name="popup" onchange="navig ate();">
<option selected>Naviga te to:
<option value="../../Library">Librar y
<option value="../Science">Scienc e
<option value="Logos">L ogos
</select>
</form>

Can anyone see anything that would be causing this? Thanks for any
help.

[Lee]

pa*********@gma il.com said:

>
I am using the following javascript to make a popup menu allow the
user to navigate to different pages on a website.
Yet it is opening windows as if I have <base target="some-name">
defined in the body.

<script language=javasc ript>
<!-- Begin
function navigate()
{
open(document.p opupForm.popup. options
[document.popupF orm.popup.selec tedIndex].value,"content ");
}
// End -->
</script>

This is the form:

<form name="popupForm ">
<select name="popup" onchange="navig ate();">
<option selected>Naviga te to:
<option value="../../Library">Librar y
<option value="../Science">Scienc e
<option value="Logos">L ogos
</select>
</form>

Can anyone see anything that would be causing this? Thanks for any
help.

It's doing (of course) exactly what you're telling to do.
The open() method opens a new window.
If what you really want to do is to load a new page into
the current window, you change the "location" attribute:

<form name="popupForm ">
<select name="popup"
onchange="locat ion=options[selectedIndex].value">
<option selected>Naviga te to:
<option value="../../Library">Librar y
<option value="../Science">Scienc e
<option value="Logos">L ogos
</select>
</form>
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