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"Couple of HTML questions"

Starting my own site and need some help please (I'll probably be back many times) there's acouple of things I would like the HTML code for if its possible and not too much hassle;

1) When someone enters my site, can I force the IE screen to maximise ? If so how do I do it.

2) How can I get the screen to stay at full size even if they reduce IE screen to say half width of the screen (like the SR pages) so it doesn't squash up ?

thanks

thanks,

Actually, thinking about it you could maximize the window by doing this:

Rasta, don't worry, thanks for all your help people.

Twain wrote:
> I'll leave the JavaScript required to make the browser load the
> correct page dpending on the scree nresolution to someone else though,
> because it's a long script and I'm too annoyed with my PC at the
> minute.

Ah-ha! That sounds like a cue for me... But I'm lazy.

If Sibs is right, then you simply make a seperate page for each scree nresolution and have a page that redirects to the relevant page depending on the screen resolution. You then create the pages which will appear in the maximized window.

To make the page span the whole width of the screen, but not resize when the window is resized, you must use pixel measurements rather than percentages. Do this in each one of your pages which is designed for the specific screen resolutions.

- For 640x480, make tha page 600 pixels wide
- For 800x600, make the page 760 pixels wide
- For 1024x768, make the page 728 pixels wide
- For 1600x1200, make the page 1560 pixels wide

To make the window maximise when the page loads, use this tag. It will not work in a lot of browsers though:


I'll leave the JavaScript required to make the browser load the correct page dpending on the scree nresolution to someone else though, because it's a long script and I'm too annoyed with my PC at the minute.

I'm not sure you can even do what you're asking...

If I understand right you want a page that fits 100% of someones screen when it's in a full size window (regardless of their resolution), but when they reduce the window size the tables won't compress?

If that's what you meant, I'm not sure you can do it...

Valentino Rossi wrote:
> 1) When someone enters my site, can I force the IE screen to maximise
> ? If so how do I do it.


Don't do this. As the web developer, you have no right to start dictating how a persons browser should behave. Admittedly some sites do dirty tricks like this, but their creators will go to hell for their sins.

The SR pages are 740 pixes wide so they fit perfectly on 800x600 resolution, you have to scroll accross if you have a lower resolution than that and you have got a massive white space if you run higher than that.

Make your page but for the widths of tables etc use percentages instead of pixel widths. This way, the table will be 100% of the browser. Very handy.

Don't know about the maximising thing though...

Starting my own site and need some help please (I'll probably be back many times) there's acouple of things I would like the HTML code for if its possible and not too much hassle;

1) When someone enters my site, can I force the IE screen to maximise ? If so how do I do it.

2) How can I get the screen to stay at full size even if they reduce IE screen to say half width of the screen (like the SR pages) so it doesn't squash up ?

thanks