Disabling a layout before calling javascript window.open

Rails
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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

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Jonathan M. 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