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How to hide the address bar in a popup window in HTML?

Nemo2000

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As a rather poorly self-taught use of HMTL, I can do the basics but struggle sometimes to work out more complicated stuff, so please bear with me.


I have created a simple HTML file (call it A) with some content that I want to display as a 'popup' whenever someone clicks on a link in other HTML pages (call them B, C etc). Working from various online web tutorials etc I have managed to create a Javascript file (call it X) which creates a series of 'classes' of different sizes of popup windows. So far so good - the user clicks on a link in say file B or C and file A appears in a popup window. BUT - how can I hide the address bar in the popup window so that the URL of file A is hidden?


Web searches for this query give various answers relating to the use of "location=no" or "location=0" or similar, but no guide as to exactly where that value has to be inserted. Everything I have tried so far has failed.


The various files B, C etc each contain the following code:-


<script type="text/javascript" src="popup.js"></script>


where 'popup.js' is File X mentioned above


and then:-


<a class="popup1" href="datafile.html" onclick="window.open(datafile.html)">Click Here</a>


where 'datafile' is File A mentioned above and 'popup1' is one of the classes defined in File X.


Hopefully that's clear! If so, can anyone help please?
 
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