Resize and redirect, or the reverse??

[genki01]

I'm not sure if this is the right place as I'm referencing JS. I'm new this but I'm trying to learn.

Right now I'm using a script on a page, where the link will resize the window to a certain size.

<SCRIPT>
<!--
function cont()
{
window.resizeTo(900, 750);
window.location="redirect.php";
}
// -->
</SCRIPT>

and the link

<a href="javascript:cont();">link</a>

Leads to redirect.php which contains:

<?php
 header( 'Location: http://www.yoursite.com/' ) ;
?>

This works great except on the first page, when the user hovers over the link it says something about JS in the status bar.

Is there a way to achieve the same effect (resize AND redirect) with the status bar saying http://mysite.com/redirect.php?

[madboyka]

You should put you're javascript in the onclick="" attribute, and add the "redirect.php" to the href attribute, this way, the status bar will say .../redurect.php and your link will work even if javascript is disabled by the user(window won't be resized thou).
I'm not sure how window.location works; you might need to add a "return false" in your onclick attribute.
So your link should look like this:

<a href="redirect.php" onclick="cont();return false;">link</a>

[genki01]

Dude that worked great! Could you explain why "return false" was needed? I looked it up and I was led to believe that would negate the a href and not link out?

I did some other digging and found out about onMouseOver="window.status

I may use this instead as the whole point of my redirect.php was so it looked like the link was to a page on my site, and not a page out. Any negatives on using onMouseOver="window.status besides the chance JS is disabled?

[almostbob]

return false purpose is to negate the href if javascript is enabled, the onclick attrribute remains, the script will function, the window will resize and then redirect