# How to create a pop-up

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-a-pop-up/78528>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 6, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-a-pop-up/78528 "2006-12-06T17:33:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8e7dd6/32.png) [@nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nephish)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 5:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-a-pop-up/78528/1 "2006-12-06T17:33:08Z")

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hello all,

i need to put a form in a pop-up window,  
how do i do this in rails ?  
i can’t find anything.  
i am pretty sure that i need a javascript tag, and that rails would  
have its own helper for it, but i cannot find them.

thanks  
sk

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**Author:** ![nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8e7dd6/32.png) [@nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nephish)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-a-pop-up/78528/2 "2006-12-06T17:53:10Z")

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> hello all,
> 
> i need to put a form in a pop-up window,  
> how do i do this in rails ?  
> i can’t find anything.  
> i am pretty sure that i need a javascript tag, and that rails would  
> have its own helper for it, but i cannot find them.

link\_to accetps :popup option. From  
[http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#M000378](http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActionView/Helpers/UrlHelper.html#M000378)  
:

link\_to “Busy loop”, { :action =\> “busy” }, :popup =\> [‘new\_window’,  
‘height=300,width=600’]

## Regards, Rimantas

[http://rimantas.com/](http://rimantas.com/)

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**Author:** ![nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8e7dd6/32.png) [@nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nephish)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-a-pop-up/78528/3 "2006-12-06T18:13:14Z")

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hey cool, thanks for this, and for the link.  
sk

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**Author:** ![nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8e7dd6/32.png) [@nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nephish)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-a-pop-up/78528/4 "2006-12-06T23:18:45Z")

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Nephish

> hey cool, thanks for this, and for the link.

This one is better :  
[http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/search?hl=en&group=rubyonrails-talk&q=popup&qt\_g=1&searchnow=Search+this+group](http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/search?hl=en&group=rubyonrails-talk&q=popup&qt_g=1&searchnow=Search+this+group)

Alain

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**Author:** ![nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/8e7dd6/32.png) [@nephish](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nephish)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-to-create-a-pop-up/78528/5 "2006-12-07T02:11:05Z")

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indeed, thanks  
sk