Can I force a browser's window size

chrscote · May 27th, 2005, 11:09 AM

I have a stand-alone Flash training application (within an HTML page) which is to be used within a classroom. When a student clicks on a shortcut on the desktop, I would like to force the browser window to open to the exact dimensions of the app. Can this be done?
I know that I can use javascript to launch another window to the exact dimensions I want, but, then, I can't find a way to close the launching window without having an alert appear. I don't think it really makes sense to make the students close the first window.

Chris

nzakas · May 27th, 2005, 03:09 PM

You can't close the original window. For security reasons, you can only close windows that you opened using JavaScript. For all others, you'll get that confirmation window.

Nicholas C. Zakas
Author, Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (ISBN 0764579088)
http://www.nczonline.net/

Imar · May 27th, 2005, 03:13 PM

Hi Chris,

You can use window.resizeTo to resize the window when it has loaded, e.g.:

<body onload="window.resizeTo(1024, 768);">

You can use document.body.scrollWidth and document.body.scrollHeight to get the width and height of the currently loaded document.

HtH,

Imar
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