bg color missing in FF; window moved to back in IE

freedmania

All I've got to do is display a large png centered in a large popup window with a selected background color. In my ignorance, I'm using two scripts to accomplish this: s_sendPreview.html (a javascript)

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
window.open ("s_sendPrvw.php","mywindow","width=750,height=970"); 
history.back();
</script>

and s_sendPrvw.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>preview</title>
<?
session_start();
$tcID = $_SESSION['thColID'];	//thColor_ID
$fitm= $_SESSION['filra'];
$path= "<img src=\"../".$fitm."\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 960px\"><br/><br/>";

switch ($tcID){
	case 3: $thC = "718cb7";
		break;
	case 4: $thC= "84a9b2";
		break;
	case 5: $thC = "d7d4c1";
		break;
}
?>
</head>
<body bgcolor="<?php print $thC;?>" style="margin: 0px;">
<table width="100%" align="center" valign="top">
<tr><td align="center" valign="top">
<div align="center" ><?php print $path ?></div><br>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
</head>
</html>

Everything works but:
- In FireFox, the bgcolor is not rendered.
- in IE, the main window obscures the popup window because of the "back()" function in s_sendPreview.html.

I post this in the Newbie forum because I presume these are Newbie issues, and I humbly request correction of my ways.

Thanks,
Paul

"Any statement that begins with 'All you have to do' is a lie. The only thing that's true about it is that you're going to have to do it. Whoever's talking is going home."

NogDog

For the background issue, try using a style property instead of the deprecated bgcolor:

<body style="margin: 0px;background-color: #<?php print $thC;?>">

freedmania

Yep, that settles that, all right. Thanks, NogDog.

Now, how do I keep that slippery popup on top??

NogDog

freedmania;10893077 wrote:
Yep, that settles that, all right. Thanks, NogDog.

Now, how do I keep that slippery popup on top??

Could that be a browser configuration issue? You could take a look at some Javascript enhancement such as this; http://javascript.internet.com/page-details/top-window.html

As for myself, though, I'd be more likely to use a JavaScript/CSS/HTML solution to simulate a pop-up entirely within that same page, as I'm never sure what various pop-up blockers may do when you try a window.open().