I'd like to know if there's a fool proof way for using popups with only a link, not an image.

what do you mean by fool proof? 'cos there is no 100% way of getting your popups to pop up for everybody. anytime you push something off onto the client there's a potential of something going wrong. in this case the popup doesn't pop up.

all the user has to do is turn off their javascript and the popup stops popping. most people don't do that but they have popup stoppers which stops only the popups not other javascripts.

Try these:

http://www.magitek-designs.net/index.php?magitek=tutorials_popup

Hope that helps :) !

you can always just target '_blank' that'll open in a new window. i'm not sure what you're trying to do. the target won't be using a javascript so you won't have any problems

<a href="url" target="_blank">text here</a>

Wow, thanks for the suggestions! I got the pop-ups to work! :D