window.open parent and Child

[Ameya Thakur]

I have a smal problem in window.open()
I open a child window (pop up) through a button from my parent window.
Now i dont want to have acess to the Parent window until my child winodw is closed.ie i should not be able to work on the parent window.
Do you know any way in javascript in which we can achive this.
Its like this when we get an error message we arre not allowed to go the
parent window ....

i have a search form on the click of the button it will open an pop up
window which will perform the search now this window should be active alway
until and unless this is close it , only reason for which is the search form
is dynamic and it should not have the control over the parent window until &
unless the child winodw is close.

[Eric Pascarello]

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Eric
[ March 12, 2004: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]

[Eric Pascarello]

Basically you have three options....
Option 1 is to use a modal window...but that only works for IE
Option 2 is you need to put a setTimeout/setInterval code on the parent when the child is open. That timer will call a function and check to see if the child is open and check if the parent is in focus. If that is true you do window.blur() and ChildName.focus().
Option 3 which is the best. Use layers with an IFRAME, show the layer and cover the page with it, Person can not continue under the layer is hidden. This way you do not have to deal with pop up blockers and such and it will work in all modern day browsers unlike Option 1.
Eric