[ILUG-Webdev] Resizing windows

[Lee Hosty]

At 01:42 PM 11/03/2003 +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:

>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.

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/JavaScript/Q_20275475.html

has an IE only hack that could help in your problem. Detect if there is a 
horizontal scrollbar - if so make window wider. Ditto for vertical scrollbar.

>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.

There are still a lot left to be desired of w3c DOM implementations in all 
browsers. For example - if you were to place both your image and 
descriptive text inside a DIV tag, its height and width are null unless you 
explicitly set it via CSS (this is I presume because you get its height and 
width using stylesheets also - elementObject.style.height). Checking this 
just now reveals the same in Phoenix. So no, I can't see any way to do what 
you want in current browsers.


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