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Aug 06.2004

Hello,

I’m familiar with opening a new window and removing it’s titlebars, toolbars and everything and getting it fullscreen.

However for a website I’m making I need to have a page that automatically does this when the page is LOADED. (I know this is incredibly annoying for someone who’s visiting the page, but it’s what the client wants… and no, he doesn’t want a new window to pop-up, he wants the first thing that happens when you browse to his page, to be it immediately going fullscreen without the browser bars so the viewer ‘can focus on the content’).

I’ve no clue how to do this, the best I can do is maximize the screen but this still leaves the browser toolbars.

Anyone can be of help ? I’d appreciate it. ?

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@BillyRayAug 06.2004 — You cannot remove these once the window has loaded. Your best bet is to have some instructional text on the screen telling the user to "Press F11" to get more space.

Dan
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@JacksonCochraneAug 06.2004 — You might give the following a try, as a viable workaround.

<HTML>

<Head>

<Script Language=JavaScript>


function replaceThis(){

wStr = screen.availWidth-10;
hStr = screen.availHeight-10;
wStr = "width="+wStr;
hStr = "height="+hStr;
cleanWindow = window.open("theContent.html","isContent","toolbar=0,status=0,"+wStr+" "+hStr+",top=0,left=0");
window.opener = "";
window.close();
}

window.onload=replaceThis

</Script>

</Head>

<Body>

</Body>

</HTML>
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