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Redirect with pre-sized pop-up code help

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This is for work and I'm just not that good at coding.

The simple redirect code I know:

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  2. <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html">

What I need is for the redirected page to be presized (width=800,height=564). I only know how to do it when a user pushed a button not on a redirect.

The problem is this is a webcast that they are putting on plasma screens so there will be no user interaction.

Using the hardware/software they are trying to use they just put a link in and it goes.

I am sure this is a simple thing.

Any help would be apreciated.

Thank you!
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Re: Redirect with pre-sized pop-up code help

You cannot force a page to be a certain size.

The only way to resize a page is to control the window in which it appears, which you already know how to do "when a user pushed a button", meaning, using the window.open() method, I presume.

When you redirect, you aren't creating a new window. You lose control over the window. The new page owns it, so that page will need to contain its own resize code.
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Thank you for the reply.

I was hoping there was something I could do.

I can't build a whole new page for these plasmas in time and my prebuilt (by my now deceased predecessor) webcast template isn't full screen. I can give them the direct link to the frameset but without controling the window size everything is distorted.

I thought a redirect may work but I guess not.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a quikish work around?
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Re: Redirect with pre-sized pop-up code help

Perhaps I wasn't very clear: only the "current page" can resize and/or open a window. Once the web server redirects to a page, only THAT PAGE can resize its window.
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Re: Redirect with pre-sized pop-up code help

You could open the page in a new window of the specified size and close the old window behind you.

It's not the best solution, but it will work in a pinch.
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I'll give it a try Deacon. It's better then having to reprogram a whole new webcast template from scratch.

What would be the code for that?
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Re: Redirect with pre-sized pop-up code help

Well crap...that only works in IE.

The latest Netscape and FireFox browsers won't let javascript close a window it did not open.
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Re: Redirect with pre-sized pop-up code help

Quote originally posted by Deacon J ...
Well crap...that only works in IE.

The latest Netscape and FireFox browsers won't let javascript close a window it did not open.
Well this is just for one box so the browser can be whatever I need it to be so I think that code would work.

Let me know what your using and I'll give it a try.
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Well, for IE, use

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  1. <script type="text/javascript">
  2. window.open("test2.html",null, "height=200,width=400,status=yes,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no");
  3. self.close();
  4. </script>
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Re: Redirect with pre-sized pop-up code help

I guess I'm having a hard time picturing what you are trying to do?

How it the webcast accessed in the first place? By a link from another page? Through a frameset?

It seems like you should be able to contain it inside a div element and set the height and width using css.

Is this something I can look at on the Web to get an idea of what you are working with?
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