hiding window.open

[akg]

Hi friends,
I am opening a popup window with window.open method. I want to hide it, someting like visible=false. is there some property or method available which solve this purpose.

Thanks,
Amit

[mrhoo]

You cannot open a new window with javascript that is hidden, positioned off screen, or smaller than a minimum size.

[acoder]

Hi friends,
I am opening a popup window with window.open method. I want to hide it, someting like visible=false. is there some property or method available which solve this purpose.

Thanks,
Amit

Why do you want to hide the window? Can you not just close it and open it again?

[akg]

I am opening a url (asp.net page) from window.open which I am resizing if the loaded url document is bigger or smaller than the opened window, but my user didn't liked this resizing of the window. so, I thought if i could open the window with hide attribute set initially and after resizing if I could display it then users will not see the resizing effect.

any suggestions ?

[acoder]

You don't need to resize the window, you can open the window the correct size in the first place.

window.open('yourpage.asp','','width=200,height=100')

See this page for more info.

[akg]

problem is my asp.net page will be of varying width and height and before calling in window.open method I can't get its full height and width.

Amit

[acoder]

Then how will you get the height and width after calling the page?

[abctech]

problem is my asp.net page will be of varying width and height and before calling in window.open method I can't get its full height and width.

Amit

Well even if you donot know the height and width in advance still you can specify a certain height and width and keep scrollbars, will that help?
[HTML]window.open(url ,"mywindow","lo cation=1,status =1,scrollbars=1 ,width=500,heig ht=300");[/HTML]

[akg]

Then how will you get the height and width after calling the page?

document.getEle mentById(id).of fsetWidth

[akg]

Well even if you donot know the height and width in advance still you can specify a certain height and width and keep scrollbars, will that help?
[HTML]window.open(url ,"mywindow","lo cation=1,status =1,scrollbars=1 ,width=500,heig ht=300");[/HTML]

no abctech, I don't have to show scrollbar to the users.