Re: Making a simple borderless pop up window with a "Close" button
| From: | Joe Webster | Date: | Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:47:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Making a simple borderless pop up window with a "Close" button | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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It only works in IE -- it makes use of the 'Full Screen' (F11) option and
tricks IE into doing so... hope you don't want it to work in NS, Opera... or
anything else
=)
-Joe
"Erik Price" <pricee@hhbrown.com> wrote in message
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> On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 07:12 AM, Denis L. Menezes wrote:
>
> > I am making a database website where I need to add a small help button
> > for
> > every field on the form. Whenever the user clicks the small help
> > button, I
> > wish to show a titleless popup window containing the help text and a
> > "close"
> > button. Can someone help me with the php script for this.
>
> This kind of trick isn't done in PHP but rather in JavaScript. Search
> google for "javascript tutorial" and if you want to narrow that down
> some add "window open resize". As has been mentioned on this list five
> times over the past 24 hours, JavaScript is code that is executed by the
> user's browser (as opposed to PHP which is code executed by the server),
> which provides the ability to manipulate browser objects like windows.
>
> I don't know much JavaScript so I can't answer your question directly,
> sorry.
>
>
> Erik
>
>
>
>
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>
> Erik Price
> Web Developer Temp
> Media Lab, H.H. Brown
> pricee@hhbrown.com
>