Getting rid of scroll bar and link to open new window

[cantfindausername]

Hi, I am starting my first website, and I have been using Dreamweaver MX to create it.

I have got the site as I want it, apart from a horizontal scrollbar that I cannot get rid of. Is there a piece of code that I need to remove/insert to stop this from happeneing?

Also I have links to pictures that open in a new window. This is all fine, except I want the new window to open to the same size as the picture, without having to manually resize the new IE window.

Hope this makes sense. Thanks for any help offered.

Ant

http://www.car13.net

 

[cLFlaVA]

a) to get rid of scrollbars, you'll either have to make sure the content within the website is within the bounds of the screen (remember that different users have different resolutions), or use javascript to open your window from a main window. Using JS will allow you to hide the scrollbars in the new popup window.

b) Again, you'll need javascript to do this. There are a few different ways, so if you have a code snippet we'd be able to help better.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You should be able to hide scrollbars using CSS without any JS:

<style type="text/css">
body {
   overflow: hidden;
}
</style>

Of course, if the window shrinks below the size of the content, don't expect the scrollbars to appear!

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[cLFlaVA]

Ahh, nice Dan -

i'm stuck in the js mindset right now.

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[cantfindausername]

Thanks guys I shall give that a go.

I have created the site is 800x XXX res so if they are running smaller than that they dont deserve to see the site lol.

I've created it on a 21" monitor running high res and I still get the horizontal scrollbar,

I'll report back with my results.

Thanks,
Ant

 

[cantfindausername]

I've just tried that scripts and it hasn't worked. Any other suggestions?

Many thanks
Ant

 

[cLFlaVA]

do you have a url or some code?

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[cantfindausername]

go to

http://www.car13.net

- click images, the top button for cannonball run europe.

Thanks
Ant

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Going to

http://www.car13.net

doesn't show anything. It doesn't error (404, etc), but it doesn't deliver any content either.

Maybe you could fix this?

Dan

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

OK - I guess your site was down temporarily... It's working fine after 10 mins.

Your frameset definitions (both of them) are messed up. You cannot have both ROWS and COLS in the same frameset tag, and both of yours have both. You are also missing a comma in your COLS definition.

Hope this helps,
Dan

 

[cantfindausername]

Ok, I think I see what you mean:

I have:

colspan="5" rowspan="4"

And I shouldn't. What should it be? I am a complete novice at this. Also, where should this comma be in the COLS definition?

Thanks very much for your help it is very much appreciated.

Ant

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Not your TABLEs - your FRAMESETs. You have:

<frameset rows="164,*" cols="948*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
  <frame src="Frames/Index/Title%20Frame.html" name="topFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize >
  <frameset rows="*" cols="120,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0">

You should not have both COLS and ROWS for a frameset - and you have both for both of yours.

As you can see, the first "cols" definition has no comma in it, either.

Dan

 

[cantfindausername]

??? I cant find that when I do view source.

I will wait till I get home though and have a look in the code in DW.

So my guess would be I need to delete the cols="948*" from that section? Is that right??

Thanks

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

So my guess would be I need to delete the cols="948*" from that section? Is that right??

If you want to have a single frame across the top, and two frames side-by-side below that, then you would probably delete the COLS from the first frameset, and the ROWS from the second.

Try playing around with it and see what happens. Experiment a bit.

Dan

 

[cantfindausername]

Ok, thanks for your help so far on this. It is very much appreciated.

Ant