Re: Making a simple borderless pop up window with a "Close" button

From: Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:47:27 +0000
Subject: Re: Making a simple borderless pop up window with a "Close" button
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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 news:E4AB0EDC-3B47-11D6-884F-0050E4857868@hhbrown.com... > > 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 > > > > > ---- > > Erik Price > Web Developer Temp > Media Lab, H.H. Brown > pricee@hhbrown.com >

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