[ILUG-Webdev] Resizing windows

[Niall O Broin]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 13:26, adam beecher wrote:
> > Adam's code doesn't work either because self.document.body.clientWidth is
>
> not
>
> > equivalent to document.width (ditto height).
>
> As I explained, this is why the first resize is required: IE5 doesn't
> /have/ an equivalent to document.width, so it needs to be resized as a
> reference point. By the way, I've used the code I sent and tested it in all
> the 4+ browsers and equivalents, and it works for accurate browser window
> resizing in everything but tabbed browsers.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough as to what "Adam's code doesn't work either" 
meant. You had

self.resizeTo(100, 100);
w = (100 - self.document.body.clientWidth) + <?=$w?>;
h = (100 - self.document.body.clientHeight) + <?=$h?>;
self.resizeTo(w, h);


The (100 - self.document.body.clientWidth) and (100 - 
self.document.body.clientHeight) are tautologies here because after 
self.resizeTo(100, 100) you have self.document.body.clientWidth = 100 and 
self.document.body.clientHeight = 100 from what I can see. So the 4 lines 
above can be replaced by 

self.resizeTo(<?=$w?>, <?=$h?>);

which will work just fine in that it will resize the window to the size I 
specify, but that's no advance on what I already have. I need to be able to 
ask:

Now that this document has been rendered, what are the dimensions of the box 
which would just contain it ?

Resize the window to those dimensions.


document.width and .height provide that information for NS4. It doesn't seem 
to be possible to get it in IE. I was wondering if perhaps someone could 
suggest some DOM magic which might work e.g. place everything on a layer, get 
the dimensions of the layer, resize the window to suit.


Niall