Resizing a Browser Window

Sometimes we want to be able to change the size of the browser window, based on the content which we are showing.  Perhaps we wish to show the website in a letter box style or we wish to have a common popup up window be be able to size it for the current purpose. The code provided below may be used to resize the browser window, without setting the size within the window.open command.

function resizeWindow (screenW, screenH) {
  if (parseInt(navigator.appVersion)>3) {
     screenW = screen.width;
     screenH = screen.height;
   }
  else if (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && parseInt(navigator.appVersion)==3 && navigator.javaEnabled() ) {
    var jToolkit = java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(); var jScreenSize = jToolkit.getScreenSize();
    screenW = jScreenSize.width;
    screenH = jScreenSize.height;
  }
  window.resizeTo(screenW ,screenH );
}

Call the function using the command

resizeWindow(400,300)

Don't forget to incoporate this command either in the tag using the onload parameter, or directly in the header with the function.