Small HTML query

[vixpy1]

How does one get a link to open in a new page of a specified size?

i know its to do with the 'target' tag, but its been so long since i've done any of this my head is about to fall off.

[BaconBonce]

target="_blank" after the href bit from memory

[UncleDave]

Yep it's the _blank bit as above..
but there is no way to control the size of the window you open unless you use Javascript..

[Bodo]

You'll need javascript to specify the size.

[Bodo]

UncleDave said:

Yep it's the _blank bit as above..
but there is no way to control the size of the window you open unless you use Javascript..

whippersnapper!

[Altrezia]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/au

Hope that helps

[tigger1]

Bodo said:

You'll need javascript to specify the size.

Pervert.

Jacascript...eeew.

[jamieboy]

tigger1 said:

Bodo said:

You'll need javascript to specify the size.

Pervert.

Jacascript...eeew.

Happy to hear alternatives?

[tigger1]

jamieboy said:

tigger1 said:

Bodo said:

You'll need javascript to specify the size.

Pervert.

Jacascript...eeew.

Happy to hear alternatives?

Yes...but Javascript. Work of the devil.

[Bodo]

I must be the devil's pervert then

Code for the smilies legend popup, ripped from the Post Reply source code:
<!--
function openWindow(url) {
popupWin = window.open(url, 'new_page', 'width=450,height=400,scrollbars=yes')
}
// -->
then
<a href="Javascript: openWindow('h ttp://ww w.pistonheads.com/gassing/legend.htm')" target="_self"><small>Smiles legend</small></a>

(remove blanks from url)

Edited by Bodo on Friday 2nd March 10:17

[J_S_G]

tigger1 said:

jamieboy said:

tigger1 said:

Bodo said:

You'll need javascript to specify the size.

Pervert.

Jacascript...eeew.

Happy to hear alternatives?

Yes...but Javascript. Work of the devil.

You could write a nice little bit of script that parsed an HTML document looking for anchor tags with specific targets/custom attributes/let you just define the data in an XML island somewhere/etc, having this script then take "normal" anchors that open with a "_blank" (or named) windows, and change them to fixed-size (menu/tool-bar-less) popups. Accessible, guaranteed to work on every browser, gives the experience you want to upstream browsers, search-engine-optimisation friendly, graceful degradation, etc.

[zaktoo]

You could always assume that the user would resize the window himself, should he want to. Bugs the crap out of me when web sites assume what size *I* want *my* windows to be....

[Bodo]

zaktoo said:

You could always assume that the user would resize the window himself, should he want to. Bugs the crap out of me when web sites assume what size *I* want *my* windows to be....

FFS!

[J_S_G]

zaktoo said:

You could always assume that the user would resize the window himself, should he want to. Bugs the crap out of me when web sites assume what size *I* want *my* windows to be....

As a techie at heart, I agree (but you should just disable that in the JavaScript config dialog, then).
As a business person, I don't agree. There are good business cases for guiding the average (dumb) user in the way that you want - adding black ink to the books through a process that is more aligned to the "average" user than the "exceptional" user is going to suit most businesses!