I'm trying to spruce up my website and I am a complete novice at this. I'm using Dreamweaver MX. I would like to create a link that when clicked, will create a new window at a specifice dimension without the URL or Menu bar appearing. I know this can be done, I'm looking for a way to do in Dreamweaver.

look in the Topic forums..I seem to remember there's an HTML and Web Scripting forum..that'd be the best bet.

I think it's somewhere in the behaviors dropdown. Try looking there.

::a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="_blank"::Go to Yahoo::/a:: that's the code for a new window. replace :: with < and > to open and close the thing. afaik it should be height="600" width="400" after _blank". i think. try it without the ""'s too. drac

oh and 600 and 400 are pixels. change them to whatever you want.

Go to Yahoo testing

Go to Yahoo testing 2

Bandolin try this

//A href="javascript:window.open('URL',
'window-name','menubar=no,resizable=no,scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,width=xxx,height=xxx')">your link///A>

Dont forget to replace the // with < when copying this code

Replace window-name by the name of this new window, Replace URL by the url of the new window, replace xxx by the size in pixels of your new window.

You should know too that this "simple" method may not work if the browser used got a "anti pop-up"

cheers

Message edited on: 02/27/2006 16:51

what pidjy said :) drac

yup pidjy got it lol that should work :)

so, I'm wondering... who else here is web programmer? and who does it professionally? (paid programming assignments)

In Dreamweaver highlight or select what you want to activate the link. In the TagInspector window select the behaviors tab, clik on the "+" and select "open broswer window". When the new menu appears select what options you want and hit "OK". Hope this helps:) Stew

Attached Link: http://graphicfantastic.com

Nice site aprilgem, like the design. Think its time I updated mine:)

Thanks, Phil! :) Oh, and I forgot to add the code here, too: a href="otherpage.html" onclick="window.open('otherpage.html', 'otherpage', 'width=300,height=450,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no'); return false"

Sigh. I keep forgetting to add the little last bit. The code I use also works even if the visitor has javascript turned off, so it's recommended. Plus, people can still right-click the link and open it differently if they want to.

Thanks for all the replies but I was looking for a Dreamweaver method. The pidgy and aprilgem methods require me to add coding and I'm not sure where that goes.

This is the code I'm getting for the button that launches the page I want in its own window.

a href="portfolio.htm" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Portfolio','','Images/Navbuttons/PortfolioDwn.jpg',1)"////img src="Images/Navbuttons/PortfolioUp.jpg" alt="Portfolio Button" name="Portfolio" width="92" height="55" border="0"// /a He he. I had to replace the <> with //

Message edited on: 02/27/2006 19:47

If I use aprilgem's technique is this what I should code in its place... a href="portfolio.htm" onclick="window.open('portfolio.htm', 'Portfolio', 'width=xxx', height=xxx, scrollbars=no, resizable=no, toolbar=no, directories=no, location=no,menubar=no, status=no'); return false"

The width and height should be together, no single quotation mark between them. Also, no spaces after the commas in that last array. The Dreamweaver code you provided is for mouseovers -- rollover buttons. The buttons change look as you mouseover them, in other words. Wish I could help you more, but I'm leaving the house in half an hour -- going to the airport so I can take a trip to Australia. :) Won't be online after this post for two weeks at least.

you can do on mouseover in HTML 4, at least as far as I can remember..hey, I'm a print operator Jim, not a Java programmer..;)

I had as many as 5 windows open by moving the mouse over the button. I wanted the window to open when you click the button. Furthermore, in order for it to work at all, I had to disable "Block Popups". I didn't think it would be this hard. All I want is a new window constrained to a certain size without all the menu stuff when you click the button.

Message edited on: 02/28/2006 07:50

Message edited on: 02/28/2006 07:47

Awesome that worked! Thanks so much Gog_CA1. I had to change the default from "Show Events for 3.0 browsers and on" to "Show Events for 4.0 Browser and on" in order to get the onClick option.

No worries, nice that the dreamweaver training my company sent me on a couple of years ago is getting some use :)

@Rayraz Actually, I'm a Java developer...I do lots of back end stuff. Databases, J2EE, that sort of thing. ;) I'm the one that gets yelled at when the site goes down... :)

I used to develope in PERL and C++ (plus HTML/jscript/CSS2/mySQL), alas I'm not 'at the coal face' anymore so the programming doesn't get used a great deal, I just 'talk' to my gang when it goes pear shaped :). Much as I hate to admit it I've also used Flash and actionscript for a fair number of years - but saying that around web developers is a bit like going into a womens institute meeting and asking whether they watch porn - lots of angry faces and shouting :)

Heeey cool stuff! Anyone Gog and Nevanna! Do any of u two have an idea what I should look in to for scanning images and uploading them to the server automatically in a php-based system? I know how to upload files using php, that's not the main problem, but how to make a form with a "scan" button that will scan the image? I also need to find out a similar thing for taking puctures with a webcam.... Anyone got any pointers where I should focus at for this? -- Ray (guilty of using flash too)

Ray, What are you scanning your image from?

Well I'm working on a php/mysql based administration system. And we're looking to make a functionality to scan drivers licences and such to add to personel profiles.

hey, all I know is HTML 4 in wordpad..the air's getting rarified in here..;)