Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations SkipVought on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Setting Homepage
- Thread starter kamloops
- Start date
dwarfthrower
Programmer
You need the following style in your <head> section:
Then you need a function, in a script in the <head>:
Put the following tag at the start of the <body>:
Then you can set up your checkbox to utilise it's onChange event to set the home page:
Obviously IE only... not sure how to go about it in the lesser browsers ;-)
Code:
<STYLE>
@media all {
IE\:HOMEPAGE {behavior:url(#default#homepage)}
}
</STYLE>Then you need a function, in a script in the <head>:
Code:
function setHomePageToURL(theURL){
browserHomePage.setHomePage(theURL);
event.returnValue = false;
}Put the following tag at the start of the <body>:
Code:
<IE:HOMEPAGE id="browserHomePage" />Then you can set up your checkbox to utilise it's onChange event to set the home page:
Code:
<input name="setHP" type="checkbox" value="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com"[/URL] onClick="if(this.checked){setHomePageToURL(this.value);}" />Check to set Home PageObviously IE only... not sure how to go about it in the lesser browsers ;-)
- Thread starter
- #3
dwarfthrower
Programmer
Sorry, forgot to mention that you'll need to use IE as an xml namespace in your opening <head> tag:
Code:
<html xmlns:ie xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/URL]- Thread starter
- #5
how would you feel if you went to a website and your home page was changed without you knowing?
And in answer to your question, no you can't (in IE anyway)- the user has to OK/Cancel homepage setting. The reason IE doesn't allow it to happen automatically should be clear from my first question
Posting code? Wrap it with code tags: [ignore]
[ignore][/code][/ignore].
And in answer to your question, no you can't (in IE anyway)- the user has to OK/Cancel homepage setting. The reason IE doesn't allow it to happen automatically should be clear from my first question
Posting code? Wrap it with code tags: [ignore]
Code:
[/ignore][code]CodeHeredwarfthrower
Programmer
clarkin is right, it would be rude to change someone's browser settings without asking. Therefore there is no way to do this in JavaScript. You would need an ActiveX control to obtain that sort of control over the browser.
If you are talking about a corporate environment where you may need to set the homepage of dozens or hundreds of users, you can use a policy creator/editor tool to achieve this at an operating system level.
If you are talking about a corporate environment where you may need to set the homepage of dozens or hundreds of users, you can use a policy creator/editor tool to achieve this at an operating system level.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question