PRB: Internet Explorer Pop-Up Window Does Not Appear in Internet Explorer 5

This article was previously published under Q251132

Symptoms

The Internet Explorer Popup Window control (Iepopwnd.ocx) does not appear correctly in Internet Explorer 5.

Iepopwnd.ocx is a legacy control, and it is no longer supported or distributed with Internet Explorer.

There are a number of alternatives that you can use to achieve this functionality:

�	Window.open - You can use the window.open method to open a new instance of the browser with a specific URL, size, and feature set.
�	HTML dialogs - You can use the window.showModalDialog and window.showModelessDialog methods to open dialog boxes that display an HTML page.
�	DHTML pop-up Windows - You can use DHTML and scripting to programmatically hide/show DIV tags to simulate pop-up windows.
�	Pop-up object - Beginning with Internet Explorer 5.5, you can use the window.createPopup method to dynamically create pop-up windows. You can then manipulate the HTML content and visibility of these windows through script.