I have a popup that can't be minimized before completing the operation. if a user minimize it, it should automatically gain focus and stay maximized.
I was able to achive the same in IE but not in chorme.
Following code works in IE:
var popup = window.open("https://www.google.com", "popup_window", "fullscreen");
if (popup.outerWidth < screen.availWidth || popup.outerHeight < screen.availHeight)
{
popup.moveTo(0,0);
popup.resizeTo(screen.availWidth, screen.availHeight);
}
This opened the screen without minimize button which solved the problem.
Suggest an alternative for chrome
Focusing the window this way isn't cross browser compatible. I guess Firefox, Chrome and Safari won't obey. I mean imagine if ads over the internet could oblige the user to keep the focus on their page... I would be a complete mess. So i think it's a security.
Could you explain the need for the window to stay maximised? Focusing windows this way can be difficult, so perhaps the problem may best be solved by not requiring the window to stay maximised.
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I use the last firefox release (45.02) on windows 7.
I want to prevent user to resize manually the windows. I have a non responsive GUI, and I want to fix the browser interface.
I can't use the javascript resizeTo(...) function because of MDN docs
You can't reasonably do this. Which is a Good Thing. The user is in control of their browser, not you.
You can control the size of a popup (including whether it can be resized), within reason, so temporarily while you sort out the responsive thing, you could provide users a link to open a window in the size you want:
Open window in XxY for best experience of this site.
then
document.getElementById("open-window").addEventListener("click", function() {
window.open("http://example.com", "", "width=640,height=480,resizable=no");
}, false);
Note that some browsers may still allow resizing, either in the normal way or via a small "grippy" (as the Firefox folks call it).
I have an ASP.NET page, running in IE, that monitors several server jobs running at night. When an error occurs on a job, I have a popup window that opens with javascript, window.open(). The problem is, employees tend to have other applications, such as Netflix, running full screen and do not see the popup window notifying them of the error. I have javascript code on the popup page to continually set focus to itself, so it will blink in the taskbar, but Netflix covers the taskbar, so not helpful.
Currently using:
setInterval('window.focus()',500);
Is there a way to make a popup window in IE that will open over every other application?
No, you only have control over the browser and that is even limited, not the entire Desktop/Laptop.
The only way to overcome to other windows is using fullscreen=yes to make your window full screen. It's supported in IE only (MSDN docs) and Mozilla people hate it!
Otherwise you don't have access to OS level from the browser.
I'm using IE8 in Windows7. When in Javascript I do window.open(....), the new window starts blinking in the taskbar. I want the new window to be displayed to the user and not hide in the taskbar.
I've tried:
var myWindow = window.open(.....);
myWindow.focus();
But still it starts blinking in the taskbar. Anyone knows the trick to fix this?
If there were a way to do what you want to do, every popup ad in the world would use it and the web would be a worse place. so there isn't a way to do it. =)
You might have better luck if the window.open occurs in a click handler or something like it - there are complicated heuristics baked into the browser around allowing poups if they're deemed 'intentional'.
I actually got this working. Initially I was opening IE8 using the IE icon on the task bar menu. For some reason I then decided to open IE directly from C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/ and it worked as expected.
On iPad Safari, there seems to be issue with popup. When a popup (opened using window.open()) is closed, it remains in minimized mode (or grid view) after closing the popup...It
does not return focus to the parent window.
I have tried using parent.opener.focus(), but still does not work.
Is this a known iPad issue OR can we fix this issue using some JS code?
Please help.
I'm not sure if this would help, but just some personal experience on this issue:
Did you try going to iPad's Setting - Safari - Block Pop-ups? Try turning off Block Pop-ups, it should work.
If it still doesn't appear, try turning on the Debug Console for the ipad and check if any error appears during the popup event.
Try using a URL for window.open to be a local / same domain url address. I think that works (without needing to turn off the popup blocker in safari ipad).
I am working on a Flash app that is 900x700 pixels. When viewed in misc. browsers at 1024x768, the browser chrome causes robs too much of the vertical space and the app appears in a window with a vertical scrollbar. Unacceptable.
The flash app will be launched via a link emailed to the viewers.
I'd like to avoid resizing the flash app and am wondering if there's a way to do the following via javascript, with no clicks involved:
maximize the current browser window
remove current window address bar and tabs / switch browser to full screen view (equivalent to pressing F11).
An alternative would be to resize the flash app vertically to match the browser canvas height to avoid scrolling. This may cause the app to become unreadable, so not the best approach in my case.
Thank you!
UPDATE: Seems that browser resizing and autoswitch to full screen won't work and neither will the flash app auto resize. What is the best approach then? And, some users may have browsers with toolbars or open a small browser window.
The only idea I have is to use javascript and display a message to users with small browser windows to pres F11 manually. The audience is executes and some may not even know what an F11 means...
There is no way to maximize the browser window to full screen with JavaScript. While this is unfortunate for your genuine requirement, it is considered a security restriction.
Sources:
Stack Overflow - To view the silverlight app in fullscreen mode(F11)
SitePoint Forums - Trigger F11 using javascript
Webmaster World - F11 Fullscreen using Javascript
The window size can be altered by using:
window.moveTo(0, 0);
window.resizeTo(screen.availWidth, screen.availHeight);
To answer the question in the comment you made to your own post. Yes. You can have a button whose click handler does this
stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN;
You can use JavaScript to open a new window (using window.open) and control the window that is opened (no address bar, etc). You can also control the size of the window (you can't maximize it, but you can get the users screen size, and set the window that same size).
Chrome 15, Firefox 10, and Safari 5.1 now provide APIs to programmatically trigger fullscreen mode. Fullscreen mode triggered this way provide events to detect fullscreen changes and CSS pseudo-classes for styling fullscreen elements. These APIs may present you with a more acceptable solution for those browsers.
See this hacks.mozilla.org blog post for details.