The javascript “resizeTo” function not working in Chrome and Opera

Question

The resizeTo (that allows setting a new height/width value) function works great on Firefox and Internet Explorer and doesn\'t work at all on Chrome and Opera.

Is th

Answer 1

Because many webmasters have made a bad use of pop-ups and resizing, some uncompromising browser manufacturers hopelessly just disable these functions. Other more respectful manufacturers leave them as optional.

Answer 2

On my way it isn't possible to resize the window when it is on top-level. (so not a pop-up)

And i think that chrome got it right by not allowing top level windows to be resized.

You can solve it:

Resizing won't work for top-level tabs, and when you open sample.htm it's opened as a top-level tab. If you instead opened it as a pop-up (for example using window.open with a width and a height set), resizeTo should work.

Answer 3

No, there isn't another function.

The resizeTo method is disabled by default in several browsers, and I know that it can also be manually disabled in Firefox.

It has been widely misused, so most browser vendors feel that it should be disabled, or at least a user controllable option.