Chrome not working for window.open?

Question

I am trying to show a download pop up to the user which is an ajax call giving text/csv formatted response.

The issue: it's working well in Firefox but not in Chrome, where it's opening a new tab. This is definitely unintended, and I would prefer it didn't happen. Any ideas on what I could change...?

function x() {

  var obj = jQuery("input:checked").map(function() 
  { 
    return jQuery(this).parents('tr').attr('id'); 
  });

  var result = null;
  var arr = jQuery.makeArray(obj);
  var data = arr.join(',');

  $.ajax({
    url : '<%= url_for :controller => "liges", :action => "export_to_csv" %>',
    type : 'POST',
    data : {data:data},
    dataType : 'string',
    async: false,
    success : function(response) { 
      window.open('data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,'+escape(response)); 
    }    
  }); 
};

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 10:11

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Try this:

window.open("","","width=400,height=150");

By the way chrome will block popup windows on page, until you give him access.

answered Oct 10 '12 at 10:11

kirugan

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With this, tab is not opening. Its showing me a pop up window. But still that is not a download pop, as the code does in FF – JstRoRR Oct 10 '12 at 10:32
and yeah I enabled the pop ups from the settings!! – JstRoRR Oct 10 '12 at 10:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '12 at 10:10

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You need to pass _blank as another parameter:

From MDN:

To open a new window on every call of window.open(), use the special value _blank for strWindowName.

Example:

window.open('data:text/csv;charset=utf-8,'+escape(response), '_blank');

answered Oct 10 '12 at 10:10

epoch

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_blank did not help. It showing me the same stuff!! a new tab with all the csv content as html. – JstRoRR Oct 10 '12 at 10:36
so you don't have any pop-up blockers running? – epoch Oct 10 '12 at 10:49
how about thinking of a different way to display the csv, most users will have pup-up blockers in any case, try sending the content to a hidden `iframe` to start the download, or display it in a `div` – epoch Oct 10 '12 at 11:05
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/365777/starting-file-download-with-javascript here is the iframe example i found..but will this way work with rails..??? in that case, in the path i need to provide the controller and action?? – JstRoRR Oct 10 '12 at 11:31

Chrome not working for window.open?

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