How to submit form to new window?

Question

I want to insert a form dynamically using JavaScript and then submit it and open target in new window.

Here is my code:

            var form = document.createElement("form");
            form.setAttribute("method", "post");
            form.setAttribute("action", xxx);
            form.setAttribute("onsubmit", "window.open('about:blank','Popup_Window','scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');");
            form.setAttribute("target", "Popup_Window");

            document.body.appendChild(form);
            form.submit();

This code works -- it inserts the form dynamically and submits the form successfully. However, the form is opened in a new tab whereas I want it to open in a new window. Any idea what is up? Any suggestions on how to fix this? I'm open to jQuery as well.

Thanks!

EDIT: I'm not sure why people are marking this as duplicate. Yes, it is on the same topic as the other question but the answers are not related -- the claimed duplicate issue had a new line that was messing up the code, I don't but my code still won't work...

Answer 1

I've marked this as duplicate because I thought your problem was about how to send a form to a popup window. Here is how to do it without using the onsubmit event:

var form = document.createElement("form");
form.setAttribute("method", "post");
form.setAttribute("action", xxx);

function submitToPopup(f) {
    var w = window.open('', 'form-target', 'width=600, height=400, any-other-option, ...');
    f.target = 'form-target';
    f.submit();
};

document.body.appendChild(form);

submitToPopup(form);

So instead of using the onsubmit event to create the popup from there, you create it first, just before sending the form, and then send the form to it.