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Chapter 2 ✦ Window and Frame Objects (Chapter 16)
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The biggest design challenge you probably face with respect to these windows is
deciding between a modal and modeless dialog box style. Some designers insist
that modality has no place in a graphical user interface; others say that there are
times when you need to focus the user on a very specific task before any further
processing can take place. That’s where a modal dialog box makes perfect sense.
sizeToContent()
NN2 NN3 NN4 NN6 IE3/J1 IE3/J2 IE4 IE5 IE5.5
Compatibility ✓
Example
Use The Evaluator (Chapter 13 in the JavaScript Bible) in NN6 to try the
sizeToContent() method. Assuming that you are running The Evaluator from the
Chap13 directory on the CD-ROM (or the directory copied as-is to your hard disk),
you can open a subwindow with one of the other files in the directory, and then size
the subwindow. Enter the following statements into the top text box:
a = window.open(“lst13-02.htm”,””)
a.sizeToContent()
The resized subwindow is at the minimum recommended width for a browser window,
and at a height tall enough to display the little bit of content in the document.
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windowObject.sizeToContent()