I have the following code which opens a new window when a user clicks on a button:

$('.loginButton').click(function () {
    var strString = $("#medlineSearch").val()
    var strSearch = ";query=";
    var url = strSearch + strString;
    alert(strSearch+strString);
    var windowName = $(this).attr('id');
    window.open(url, windowName, "height=750,width=1250,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,location=1");
    // custom handling here
    return false;
});

What I am looking to do is allow the user to enter something else in the address bar which seems to be read only.

Is there any way to change that?

I have the following code which opens a new window when a user clicks on a button:

$('.loginButton').click(function () {
    var strString = $("#medlineSearch").val()
    var strSearch = "http://google.&query=";
    var url = strSearch + strString;
    alert(strSearch+strString);
    var windowName = $(this).attr('id');
    window.open(url, windowName, "height=750,width=1250,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,location=1");
    // custom handling here
    return false;
});

What I am looking to do is allow the user to enter something else in the address bar which seems to be read only.

Is there any way to change that?

• javascript
• jquery
• html

• possible duplicate of change url of already opened popup – joeytwiddle Commented Aug 21, 2015 at 1:09

2 Answers 2

You cannot change the url in popup window.

open console and type location.href='http://link.'

If you want to be able to change it, set the target to _blank.

This will prevent the new page to open as popup, but as new page.

window.open
( 'http://google.'
, '_blank'
);

The jsfiddle.