Re: HTML New Window, Set Size

[Geoff Ball]

<a target="_blank" href="http://google.com">

Is there any way to use HTML commands (no JAVA) within the tag like
"width=200" to set the size of the new window?

No, there isn't.

Regards,
Geoff

 

[Rob McAninch]

Ick, get rid of the target in there. That's annoying, and rarely
warranted.

No, there isn't.

Incidentally, look into JavaScript, not JAVA, for how you could
go about doing this.

 

[Neo555]

Actually, I do want the target in there, but thanks for your suggestion. It
would do very little good to set the size of a window if the link opened in
the existing window. I'll look into JavaScript.

Thanks,

Neo

 

[Mark Parnell]

Actually, I do want the target in there, but thanks for your
suggestion. It would do very little good to set the size of a window
if the link opened in the existing window. I'll look into JavaScript.

That's the point - you shouldn't be opening a new window in the first place.
Leave that choice up to the user.

 

[Rob McAninch]

Mark Parnell

That's the point - you shouldn't be opening a new window in
the first place. Leave that choice up to the user.

Not for a standard link at any rate, which is what the example
implied. A new window is warranted in some cases, e.g. a small
'help window' or poll result. These are items a user is going to
read and close quickly and is a fairly common idea.

A more specific problem I have with a target="_blank" is that it
works without JS, so you get a new full size browser window if JS
is not available. Those new windows should be strictly JS,
fallback to a standard link with no target when JS is
unavailable.