A little window.open problem

[VRonline]

well here is my code

<span class="text">
<a onclick="window.open('photoshop/tutorial1.php' , 'tutorials' , 'width=100% , height=100% , scrollbars=auto, toolbar=no, status=no')" class="special">View this Tutorial</a> - <b>Rate/b> ehehehe
</span>

why wont it open the window as 100% and opens as 100pixels by 100 pixels. please help me

[siteguru]

Because, IIRC, javascript only accepts absolute values for the window.open( ) function - the % is meaningless and is ignored. What you will have to do is get the screen width and height using javascript and document.write those values into your page.

<span class="text">
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write ('<a onclick="window.open(\'photoshop/tutorial1.php\', \'tutorials\', \'width='+varWidth+',height='+varHeight+',scrollbars=auto,toolbar=no,status=no\')" class="special">View this Tutorial</a> - <b>Rate/b> ehehehe');
</script>
</span>

Search for "javascript screen size" and you will find lots of resources on this subject.

[beetle]

Percentages aren't allowed for the width/height with the window.open method. Instead, those figures need to be calculated per the screen size...

function popWin(nUrl) {
var w = screen.availWidth;
var h = screen.availHeight;
var features = 'width = '+w+', height='+h+', scrollbars=yes, toolbar=no, status=no';
window.open(nUrl, 'tutorials', features);
}

And to make sure your links properly degrade and are search engine friendly, I'd do it like this...

<a href="photoshop/tutorial1.php" onclick="popWin(this.href);return false;" class="special">View this Tutorial</a>

You can adjust the function to have more parameters for more flexibility, if you need it. Otherwise, you can just leave the other data hard-coded in the function.

Oh, and you may notice that I changed 'scrollbars=auto' to 'scrollbars=yes'. auto is a CSS value for the overflow property, and not a valid value here. Scrollbars on a window by their nature behave as auto does for overflow

[VRonline]

thanks dude. i undestand but it didnt work says problem with varWidth

[VRonline]

omg omg omg beetle. ur a genius. THANSK THANKS THANKs. and it looks so cool too. ur a js pro i bet. oooooo

mwahaha. i am unstopable now. yes yes yes


thjanks a million

[beetle]

Thanks, I'd like to think I'm pretty good. Just a couple weeks ago I got a Master-Level score (4.21) in DHTML from brainbench.com....

Worth anything? dunno...but I like having it

[VRonline]

cool dude. i went to ur site. BRILLIANT. except i cant click the buttons and ewhen i do they do nothing

however its amazing how i dont see any code except the contentlayer. amzing dude. please do u have msn, or aim??

[beetle]

Ya, my current site is busted (happened when I change servers...gremlins in the cables or something...) I'm making a new one anyways...

I have ICQ here at the office, used to have Trillian running with MSN and AIM too but now we got a proxy server that Trillian can't negotiate around...so just ICQ is working.

[VRonline]

ok. could u maybe send me an email

mail@vrumchev.com till i get meself icq


thanks man