Browser window: Specifying the size and location?

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  • asearle
    New Member
    • Sep 2006
    • 39
    #1

    Browser window: Specifying the size and location?

    Hi Everyone,

    Does anyone know how I can dictate what size and location the browser window should have when opened?

    I have a lot of fixed-width columns and so it would be great if I could do this so that the user then doesn't need to re-size the window to see the data.

    Many thanks,
    Alan Searle

    PS: This is for IE6 sp1 but I'd be interested in the syntax for Firefox too.
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    • drhowarddrfine
      Recognized Expert Expert
      • Sep 2006
      • 7434
      #2
      This can only be done with javascript. The code will be the same. Firefox follows the standard and I assume IE would do the same.

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        • asearle
          New Member
          • Sep 2006
          • 39
          #3
          Excellent, yes, javascript has the syntax ...

          [CODE=javascript]window.resizeTo (500,300)[/CODE]

          ... and my application already uses javascript which helps.

          Now I would like to incorporate this in the simplest way possible and so have been googling with the keyword: 'onopen' in the hope that I can just put the command in at the start and the window will resize.

          However, most of the examples that I have found are extremely complicated and so I am still not sure how I can activate this in a simple way so that the window is resized once (when first opened) and then this command is not called again.

          Any tips or links would be a great help.

          Many thanks,
          Alan Searle

          PS: And thanks to the forum staff for moving my posting to the correct location (i.e. Javascript rather than HTML)
          Last edited by gits; Oct 10 '07, 03:09 PM. Reason: added code tags

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            • asearle
              New Member
              • Sep 2006
              • 39
              #4
              I have incorporated the following along with my other Javascript functions ...

              [CODE=javascript]function onopen()
              {
              window.resizeTo (500,300)
              }[/CODE]

              ... but, although everything else seems to work fine, the window fails to resize.

              I hope/believe that this is just a syntax issue and that someone can point me in the right direction to 'pick up' the 'OnOpen' (or equivalent) event.

              Many thanks,
              Alan Searle
              Last edited by gits; Oct 10 '07, 03:09 PM. Reason: added code tags

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                • gits
                  Recognized Expert Moderator Expert
                  • May 2007
                  • 5388
                  #5
                  hi ...

                  use the document's onload event for that

                  [HTML]<body onload="onopen( );">
                  [/HTML]
                  kind regards

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