Warning: you will not be able to close a window you didn't open

Suzanne — Wed, 18 Apr 2001 01:09:55 +0000

Which is a good thing because you mess with people's history and back button if you close the window.

However, the user will get a dialogue box asking if closing the window is okay. It is up to the user to determine whether the window will close or not.

This is why most sites using this concept have the "blank" page have the company name and contact information and a link to use if a window hasn't popped up or the user accidentally deleted it thinking it was an ad, rather than trying to close the window.

Suzanne

Try This

caislander — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:56:47 +0000

Vy23,

I am not great with javascript either but I think if you add window.close() to the body tag like this that it shpould do what you want..

Hope That Helps

Vy23 — Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:58:18 +0000

Ok I just noticed. Even though this works perfect, it is opening the page as a new page and not closing the original page. This means that when I close the fullscreen windows (by using a script) I still get the original empty window in the background. Is there anyway of getting this to load the fullscreen in _parent or closing the original window down on onload?

Thanks again,

Vy23 — Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:44:04 +0000

Thanks a lot Adam! That worked great!

Adam Oberdorfer — Fri, 13 Apr 2001 21:04:40 +0000

<HEAD>

&lt;script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"&gt;

function fullScreen(theURL) {
window.open(theURL, '', 'fullscreen=yes, scrollbars=auto');
}

&lt;/script&gt;

</HEAD>

<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" onLoad="fullScreen('yourfile.html');">

Vy23 — Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:51:47 +0000

Guys,

any chance of getting a response to this please if anyone knows?

Thanks

~Vy~

Vy23 — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:54:48 +0000

Adam

Can you please go into more detail? I am not too hot with javascript. Thanks

~Vy~

Adam Oberdorfer — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:08:45 +0000

I think you'll need add an "onLoad" to you body tag and forget about the autorefresh.