# Moving Popup windows outside of the Ignition Client

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-popup-windows-outside-of-the-ignition-client/12134>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 17, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-popup-windows-outside-of-the-ignition-client/12134 "2016-09-17T09:42:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bart\_AT-Automation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@Bart\_AT-Automation](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Bart_AT-Automation)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-popup-windows-outside-of-the-ignition-client/12134/1 "2016-09-17T09:42:15Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to move a popupwindow outside of the Ignition client.  
I do not want to show the original title bar so I made my own as described on this topic:  
[https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=11185&p=40008&hilit=drag+window#p40008](https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=11185&p=40008&hilit=drag+window#p40008)  
But with this code it is still not possible to move the window outside the Ignition client.  
Does anyone know how to get this done?  
All help is appreciated!

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/moving-popup-windows-outside-of-the-ignition-client/12134/2 "2016-09-17T13:56:10Z")

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This is very much an unsupported operation, but the techniques in [this post](https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=94&t=15889) might help you. The caveat is that when you disconnect a window from Ignition’s main window, it can get confused when you open another of those windows, breaking bindings and causing weird side effects. You can avoid these side effects if you always use openWindowInstance() on that window, never openWindow(), swapWindow(), nor swapTo().