[ILUG-Webdev] Resizing windows

Tue Mar 11 11:57:36 GMT 2003

At 12:49 AM 11/03/2003 +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:

>For other browsers, I pass window sizes from the server. However, these are
>only approximations, and can result in my having windows with scrollbars,
>which is exactly what I want to avoid. Is there some nifty DOM based way of
>doing something like this for current browsers ?

I'm sure Adams code works just fine, but seeing as you asked for a more 
DOM-based way of doing it, I'll offer the following script. Tested on IE5 
and Phoenix 0.5 (both on w2k).

<body onLoad="doTheResize()">

<img src="file:///g:/2001_01.jpg" id="sampleImage" width="319" height="467" 
border="0" alt="">

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

function doTheResize() {
   if (document.getElementById) {
     if (document.images) {
// doesnt work for some reason - i haven't the time to investigate
//      img = document.getElementById("sampleImage");
//      var myHeight = img.getAttribute('height');
//      var myWidth = img.getAttribute('width');
       img = document.images["sampleImage"];
       var myHeight = img.height;
       var myWidth = img.width;
       if (window.resizeTo) {
         window.resizeTo(myWidth + 50, myHeight + 50);
       } else {
         alert("window.resizeTo not supported");
       }
     } else {
        alert("document.images not supported");
     }
   } else {
     alert("document.getElementById not supported");
   }
}

// -->
</script>

</body>

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