scrollbars and you

[Tony Ennis]

I have an app that needs to open another window. My problem is that even though I have scrollbars=1 in the open() command, there are no scrollbars. And they are needed - content is off the bottom of the screen.

My issue probably relates to the dynamic nature of my page - a lot of the heights are calculated, items super-imposed, and otherwise hidden/not hidden depending on the state (sadly the heights are hardcoded in the css file.)

Is there a way to make the page rethink its need for scrollbars? Here's my 'new window' javascript:

 onclick="window.open(this.href, 'replace', 'height=1000, width=1200, scrollbars=1,
resizable=1, menubar=0, toolbar=0, location=0, directories=0, status=0'); return false;"

Ah, this fails in IE and FF. I have not tried any other browsers. The users use IE 7 exclusively.

[Eric Pascarello]

That window would be bigger than my monitor on my laptop.

If you just call

window.open(this.href)

does it open with scrollbars?

Eric

[suresh dasari]

Dose your current window is showing scroll bar, if that is the case when you use this.href definitely the new window will have scroll bar

[Tony Ennis]

Sorry, getting distracted by another project.

The parent window has scroll bars, Mr Suresh.

more to come.