Hi, friends:

I am trying to open a new window with the window.open() method.
I have the following problem using Internet Explorer:

If I set 'scrollbars=no' I get, as you may expect, a pop-up window with no scrolling facilities.
If I set 'scrollbars=yes' I do get the scrollbar always, even when it is not necessary.
Is there any way to get the scroll bar only if the document loaded needs scrolling?
(This only happens with IE. Netscape and Mozilla browsers only shows the scrollbars if they are necessary)

Thanks in advance

Tomàs Jiménez
OranginaLab

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Tomàs Jiménez
OranginaLab

Never had much luck with this. Is setting scroll=auto in the actual page being loaded an option?

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Joe

Hi, Joe:

I'm afraid it doesn't work.
Setting 'scrollbars=auto' has the same effect that setting it to 'no'.
No scrollbars at all.

Thank you, anyway.

Tomàs Jiménez
OranginaLab

That's not what I suggested. I meant changing the scroll attribute of the page you are loading.

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Joe

Excuse my ignorance, Joe.

I'm afraid I don't know which attribute you are referring to.
Does it exist a window.scroll property? (I knew about a window.scroll() method but not such an attribute)
Or it belongs to the document object?

How do I change the scroll attribute?

Thank you for your patience.

Tomàs Jiménez
OranginaLab

When I use this line:

var newWin = window.open("newpage.php","winName","scrolling=aut o");

The new page has scrollbars only if the content exceeds the window size.

I am using IE6. I don't know why your new page has scrollbars...?

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Tomàs

This is what I meant:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ies/scroll.asp

Snib

Is anything set in the page you are showing?

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Joe

That was exactly what I needed!!
My pop up windows will never show scrollbars when not necessary again.

Thank you very much, Joe.

(Snib: I've tried your suggestion but setting "scrolling=auto" made scrollbars disappear completely)

Tomàs Jiménez
OranginaLab