Comments on: Javascript window.open sizes not reliable?

By: Dwight Vietzke

Dwight Vietzke — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:50:05 +0000

I googled this post and thought I would add this new comment.

Having a similar problem with IE 7.0 after upgrading. IE now makes my popups wider than specified by the window.open() stuff. Very annoying! I googled everywhere, and no good info. For my 215px wide, 270px high popup, IE adds 35px's to the width. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but they worked before in all browsers and now only IE screws them up!

If you know a fix, post anywhere and I will eventually find it.

By: Ruud

Ruud — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:51:09 +0000

Some of my previous remarks were left out, but check this website for xWidth and xHeight: http://www.cross-browser.com/

By: Ruud

Ruud — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:49:57 +0000

Hi,

I had exactly the seem problem (sort of) Safari and FF on mac both do seem to have this problem. I fixed the wrong size by resizing them within the popup window itself by using some of the cross-browser xLibrary and the following lines of code:

window.resizeBy(950-xWidth(document),665-xHeight(document))

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Just found this uber-test page for javascript popup windows.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An update: since this article was posted, Safari has been updated. (The most current version at the time of posting was Safari 1.2.4 [v125.12]). The new version (1.3 for Mac OS 10.3.9) fares much better, giving the correct width, but still not the right height (it seems to be 1 pixel shorter than requested).

By: paul

paul — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In Safari 2.0 (Under tiger) the width seems to be fine in your test page, but the height opens 1 pixel short. First too long… now to short ?!? What the hell Apple. I seem to be having trouble with Javasscript all over the place. Google Maps no longer works at all.