Forcing new windows to be a certain size and position
Im going to try and post this, and hopefully someone will be able to help. I really dont know what im doing wrong with my posts, and apologies if I am but no one seems to answer them.
I have a website with several links and when each new window opens I would like to be able to force not only the size of the Window but to center it too!?
Could someone offer some greatley appreciated advice!
Megan posted this at 13:12 — 7th September 2007.
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Sorry you're not getting answers to your questions! I'll take a look and see if there are any I can help with.
Are you using target_blank of a javascript pop-up to open the window? To resize a new window you'll have to use JavaScript. Here is a tutorial:
http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/jwinopen.htm
You won't be able to centre the window - only position it from the top-left corner (that's explained at the bottom of that page).
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mfdc posted this at 14:11 — 7th September 2007.
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Bless you, thats delightful
Thanks
teammatt3 posted this at 01:02 — 8th September 2007.
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Couldn't you get the size of the monitor using screen.width and screen.height and since you have the size of the browser window, you could do some math to figure out how far from the top and left would make the browser center? I haven't done it, but it might work. IE, Opera and Firefox probably have different opinions on what constitutes the browser window, so your centering might be a bit off.
Megan posted this at 13:52 — 10th September 2007.
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Um, don't use pop-up windows? Almost always a bad idea but mfdc didn't ask about that
Maybe he's got a good reason for it.
Oh, right you could do it that way. You'd also have to do some math to get what the x,y position of the top-left corenr of the window would be relative to the center of the screen. But who would go to that much trouble just to center a pop-up?
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mfdc posted this at 14:08 — 10th September 2007.
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The windows that open must have navigation via scrollbars hence regular windows would of been fine, pop ups a no no!
webwiz posted this at 16:52 — 8th September 2007.
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I hesitate doing something like this, as I don't know how to do it unobtrusively.
Modern browsers allow you to stop JavaScript from resizing and moving windows. In addition, most pop-up blockers will not open a new window without permission. This adds a barrier to visitors that may well put them off. It also raises usability issues.
Anyone have a solution to these issues?
Cordially, David
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