A container that appears in a child window. The popup window does not have any special frame. Popups can be displayed when an element is clicked by assigning the id of the popup to either the popup, context or tooltip attribute of the element. A popup is a type of box that defaults to vertical orientation.

Attributes inherited from XUL Element

Determines the horizontal alignment of the children of the popup.

• left: The elements are aligned on their left edges.
• center: The elements are centered.
• right: The elements are aligned on their right edges.

In the popup is placed inside a horizontally oriented box, autostretch determines whether the popup stretches vertically to fit the given space. For vertically oriented boxes, determines whether the popup stretches horizontally to fit the given space. Stetching in the opoosite direction is controlled with the flex attribute.

• never: The popup is never stretched and is displayed at the size specified by its width and height attributes or by the CSS width and height properties.
• always: The popup stretches to fill the given space.

If the label of the popup is too small to fit in its given space, the text will be cropped on the side specified by the crop attribute. An ellipsis will be placed in place of the cropped text.

• left: The text will be cropped on its left side.
• right: The text will be cropped on its right side.
• center: The text will be cropped on both sides.
• none: The text will be not be cropped using an ellipsis. However, the text will simply be cut off if it too large. The side depends on the CSS text alignment.

If true, extra borders are drawn around the element and all its descendants. This can be used to determine orientation and where flexible elements are. If debug mode is enabled for a box, horizontal oriented boxes are displayed with a blue border and vertical boxes are displayed with a red border. The border above the element will be straight for non-flexible elements and wavy for flexible elements.

Indicates the flexibility of the popup. Flexible elements grow and shrink to fit their given space. The actual value is not relevant unless there are other flexible elements with-in the same container. Elements with larger flex values will grow more than elements with lower flex values, at the ratio determined by the two elements.

The height of the popup in pixels. It is recommended to use the CSS height property instead.

For elements placed within a bulletinboard, specifies the position of the left edge of the popup.

Used to specify whether the children of the popup element are oriented horizontally or vertically.

• horizontal: Child elements of the popup are placed next to each other in a row in the order that they appear in the XUL source.
• vertical: Child elements of the popup are placed under to each other in a column in the order that they appear in the XUL source.

For elements placed within a bulletinboard, specifies the position of the top edge of the popup.

Determines the vertical alignment of the children of the popup.

• top: Elements are aligned by their top edges.
• middle: Elements are centered vertically.
• bottom: Elements are aligned by their bottom edges.
• baseline: Elements are aligned by their text baseline.

The width of the popup in pixels. It is recommended to use the CSS width property instead.

Properties and Methods inherited from XUL Element

Closes the popup window immediately.

Opens a popup window at the position (x,y) relative to the element. Type should be either the string "popup", "context" or "tooltip". The parameter anchor corresponds to the popupanchor attribute on the element. The parameter align corresponds to the popupalign attribute on the element.

popup.openPopup (someButton,0,0,"popup","bottomleft","topleft");

This example will open the popup anchored on the bottom-left corner of the button someButton.