Rails - Jul 2006 - disabling a layout before calling javascript window.open

Hi,

I have some code in which i open a pop up when a user clicks on a link. 
However, the new popup window comes with the layout of the page on which 
the user clicked the link. I would like to remove the layout only from 
the new window which is created with the javascript window.open - any 
ideas

thanks

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I''f you''ve already got a render, redirect_to, or
render_partial in the
method generating the page for the popup, just add ":layout =>
false" to
it''s list of arguments.  Otherwise, maybe try the following as the last
line of your popup action method. 

render :layout => false

Seamus Gilchrist wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have some code in which i open a pop up when a user clicks on a link. 
> However, the new popup window comes with the layout of the page on which 
> the user clicked the link. I would like to remove the layout only from 
> the new window which is created with the javascript window.open - any 
> ideas
>
> thanks
>
>

Jonathan Motta wrote:
> I''f you''ve already got a render, redirect_to, or
render_partial in the
> method generating the page for the popup, just add ":layout =>
false" to
> it''s list of arguments.  Otherwise, maybe try the following as the
last
> line of your popup action method.
> 
> render :layout => false
Jonathan,

thanks for the suggestion but i have not had any success with it. The 
javascript to open the window is in the layout and not in a particular 
controller. The controller (question_controller.rb, method new_question) 
brings up a layout with a paragraph of text (view new_question.rhtml), 
and when someone clicks on a hyperlink in the text that is presented 
with this layout, it pops up a smaller window that has the same layout. 
THis is the layout I want to get rid of but i have tried putting the 
render :layout => false in the code at various places with no success. 
If I put it in the layout file, i lose the layout completely and the 
pop-up does not seem to open the new window.

thanks for any advice or suggestions

seamus

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