Hide Menu Bar on page load

[IndyGill]

Hi,

I must first say that im am a novice when it comes to Javascript

I am trying to resize and hide the toolbar of a window as soon as it opens. However I cannot do the resize on the hyperlink that opens the page eg.

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}
//-->
onClick="MM_openBrWindow('del.htm','','width=300,height=200')"


I need to do it on the page load after the user has clciked a hyperlink eg..

<a href:"newpage.aspx" target="_blank">open page</a>

So on my new page I use the following javascript top resize the window:

<!--
br=navigator.appName;
brversion=parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
{
window.resizeTo(420,600);
}
//-->

However I am unsure of the syntax of how I can hide the toolbars in this function

Any ideas

Thanks in advance

 

[tlhawkins]

I think your best bet is to make the toolbar changes when you open the window.

so Open your window with the MM_openBrWindow function and send it toolbar=no in the features variable.

Here is a fairly complete list of features you can assign to an opening window.

window.open("mypage.htm", "example1", "width=420, height=600, location=yes, menubar=yes, status=yes, toolbar=no, scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes");

IE (as far as I know) will not allow you to remove the toolbar (or other chrome) from the existing page. In Netscape however you can do this:

window.open('','_top','menubar=0,location=0,toolbar=0, personalbar=0,status=1,scrollbars=1');

to make changes to the existing window. Not very useful seeing as it isn't cross browser but it's good to know.




Travis Hawkins
BeachBum Software
travis@cfm2asp.com

http://www.beachbumsoftware.com

 

[IndyGill]

Thanks for that Tlhawkins

But I cant really use that method as it will refesh the page that has the hyperlinklink, I cant allow this to happen as I have a lot of state management happening on the page.

Is there no way I can get rid of the toolbars from within the page i am calling?

 

[tlhawkins]

Not with IE... only Netscape.
Why can't they all just get together and make one browser that does it all!


Travis Hawkins
BeachBum Software
travis@cfm2asp.com

http://www.beachbumsoftware.com

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

>> Why can't they all just get together and make one browser that does it all!

Then I'd be out of a job as a cross-browser expert ;o)

 

[tlhawkins]

hehe... true.

and I would have to bill 1/2 as much when making web pages.