Disable Internet Explorer Toolbar

[Tom]

I have a C# Web Forms application and would like to disable the Internet
Explorer toolbar and menu. How can I do this?

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

Tom wrote:
> I have a C# Web Forms application and would like to disable the Internet
> Explorer toolbar and menu. How can I do this?

By disable, I guess you mean hide. You cannot do that for the current
window. The only way is to open a pop-up using client-side JavaScript,
and using the feature string to specify which bar should be displayed
and which should be hidden.

See
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.open

HTH,
Laurent
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[Alan Silver]

In article <OI5JuAAo...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, Laurent Bugnion
<galas...@bluewin.ch> writes

>Hi,
>
>Tom wrote:
>> I have a C# Web Forms application and would like to disable the
>>Internet Explorer toolbar and menu. How can I do this?
>
>By disable, I guess you mean hide. You cannot do that for the current
>window. The only way is to open a pop-up using client-side JavaScript,
>and using the feature string to specify which bar should be displayed
>and which should be hidden.

And even then, the user can simply type Ctrl-n to open the page in a new
window, complete with toolbars, menu bars, etc.

The main question is why you would want to remove the toolbar and menu.
It sounds like a very bad idea to me. These two represent the basis of
the user's browsing experience. Why do you want to cripple them?

--
Alan Silver
(anything added below this line is nothing to do with me)

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

Alan Silver wrote:

> And even then, the user can simply type Ctrl-n to open the page in a new
> window, complete with toolbars, menu bars, etc.
>
> The main question is why you would want to remove the toolbar and menu.
> It sounds like a very bad idea to me. These two represent the basis of
> the user's browsing experience. Why do you want to cripple them?

It can be legitimate in some occasions IMHO. If you must display a very
small window, for example, the bars look clumsy. In such cases, however,
one might prefer to use a DIV or something similar instead of a pop-up.

In the case of a web application (as opposed to a website), there might
be cases where the navigation is not the main purpose of the window,
thus hiding the bars might make sense.

Devil's advocate, I know ;-)

Greetings,

[neilmc...@gmail.com]

ya, i'd go with a Google Spreadsheets type "popup window"

http://spreadsheets.google.com/