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**merzitar** · 05-05-2006, 04:13 PM

Hi, can someone tell me how to make the page samller.

example; Click on a link and it opens up a new seperate page (TARGET="_BLANK") but the page is like.. 200 x 340 instead of a normal size page.

Like people do on pop-ups.

Also, i need a code to disable "Maximixe" on the page.

thanks

**vangogh** · 05-05-2006, 05:30 PM

Chris I think what you're looking for is a little javascript. You can control the new window more that way.

Here's a link from on Using the window.open method

**merzitar** · 05-05-2006, 06:25 PM

Thanks, but i don't know how to do Java Script.

I have kept it bookmarked anyway though so when i know how to code Java properly, i can use it.

Thanks

PS:
Unless you can help me?
if you can, it'll be great, if you can't no matter

**vangogh** · 12:18 PM

It's actually pretty easy to use window.open. You don't really need to know much about JavaScript. Instead of adding target="_blank" to your <a> tag you would do something like:

HTML Code:

<a href="#" onclick="window.open('pathToYourFile','windowName','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=550, height=565');"

The # for the href just holds the place for the javascript which starts with the onlcick even handler. So when anyone clicks on the link the window.open dunction will take over.

That first parameter in window.open is the path to the file you want open. It's the same thing you would have put into the href="" The next parameter is the name you want to give to the new window. That's so you could write code for that window later. After that you can add a lot of different things to determine how you want the new window to look.

In the code I gave I just allowed for the window to have a scrollbar and be resizable in case someone wanted to make it bigger or smaller and I also specified a width and height. The width and height are what the new window will open at first.

One thing to notice is that the path and the window name get quotes places around them and then all the other features get one set of quotes around them, but not around each individual feature. You separate the different extra features with a comma.

The link I gave before lists some of the other features you can control. If you do a search for window.open you'll find a lot of other pages that will give you similar or more information.

Feel free to just use the line of code I supplied and substitute the values you want for the width and height as well as the path to the file and the name for the window.

I hope that helps.

**merzitar** · 05-06-2006, 06:13 AM

hey, thanks so much.

you are realy great!!

**vangogh** · 05-06-2006, 02:48 PM

Thanks Chris. Glad I could help. Let me know if you get it working or if you still have more questions.

**herbie497** · 08-05-2006, 08:05 AM

or, instead of using all that code in one line, how about external

<script language="javascript">
function newWindow()
{
cuteLittleWindow = window.open("file_name.html", "littleWindow", "location=no,resize=no");
}
</script>

use <a href="javascript:newWindow()></a> as the link..

let me know what you think.

**funkdaddu** · 08-05-2006, 12:16 PM

Instead of using href="#" or href="javascript:blah", just use your targeted page so that anyone without JS turned on will still get the right page:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">
		<title>Untitled Page</title>
		<script type="text/javascript"><!--
function newWindow(object) {
	cuteLittleWindow = window.open(object.href, "littleWindow", "location=no,resize=no,width=200,height=300");
}
//-->
</script>
	</head>

	<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
		<p><a href="mypage.html" onclick="newWindow(this); return false;">Open a new window.</a></p>
	</body>

</html>

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