How to hide javascript window.open address bar / location bar?

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How can I hide the location/address bar of popup window created using JS ? am attaching a image where I marked the place wanted to be hidden.

test

Is it possible ? I use the below script for this.

    var ctr=0;
    function openpopup(popurl){
    var winName = "New_"+(ctr++);
    winpops=window.open(popurl,winName,"height=300,width=500,top=300,left=500,scrollbars=yes,resizable")
    }

and used this to call onClick='openpopup(this.href);return false;'

Please help me for the same.

score 24 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 24 '11 at 05:50

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You cannot hide the address bar in modern browsers. That is a security measure. The user must always know on what page he is. Also in that address bar is shown what type of page he is in (HTTP or HTTPS) and information of that webpage if it is secure.

So, sorry, but you cannot do that.

answered Aug 24 '11 at 05:50

Mihai Iorga

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ok, so that's it. is there anyother way to do this ? – Gopipuli Aug 24 '11 at 05:55
nope, you cannot hide in any way the address bar, unless you develop your own browser. – Mihai Iorga Aug 24 '11 at 05:57
Unless you go full screen... do browsers still let you do that? – Coomie Aug 24 '11 at 05:59
Yes. But clicking F11 will still show the address bar, IIRC. – ZenMaster Aug 24 '11 at 06:01
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Yes you can. I am right now looking at a IE9 modal popup opened with window.open( 'Chatt.aspx', 'chatt', 'width=400,height=400,resizable' ); and it has lacked the address bar since IE6 when the system first say day's light. – LosManos Dec 21 '12 at 15:40
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@LosManos he said modern browsers. – Wojciech Bednarski Jun 11 '13 at 17:36

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 24 '11 at 05:59

you can use a modal dialog. Not exactly a pop up, but it will open another container. Like an overlay. You see people doing this a lot with images, but you can also use this for html. There are a ton of plugins for jquery.

Heres one with some examples though: http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/

I personally like http://fancybox.net/

Only problem is you can't use ajax to call another website, but you can create a page in php or whatever and get the contents of another page and then return that in ajax.

you would want to use something like curl for this.

let me check the above sites, thanx for the response. – Gopipuli Aug 24 '11 at 06:09 — Gopipuli, Aug 24 '11 at 06:09

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 24 '11 at 05:54

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You could have a generic page that has an embedded iframe to hide the actual page. Would be a little tricky to pass the right data though. Not really worth it imo.

answered Aug 24 '11 at 05:54

wesbos

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i want it to be on a new window, not an embeded in the same page. – Gopipuli Aug 24 '11 at 05:57
Well the best you could do its domain.com/popup and then put an iframe inside of that. Otherwise you are out of luck – wesbos Aug 24 '11 at 05:58
sorry, could you give a little detail of steps ? – Gopipuli Aug 24 '11 at 06:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 26 '12 at 07:12

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Forget window.open(). Use jquery ui or jquery tools overlay instead. A js popup window will work.

edited Dec 26 '12 at 07:12

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answered Aug 24 '11 at 06:13

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That is a good workaround, but not really a solution. What if you want a window for a printing preview? Hiding the rest of the page for printing may not be easy stuff and may result in messy Javascript / CSS. – André Leria Nov 05 '13 at 18:36
This also doesn't help in my precise scenario: intranet client wants to open a window to a 3rd party shipping site. Note something we can open in a jQuery dialog, nor is it even something we can IFRAME in (the remote site explicitly blocks FRAMEd access) – Nathan Crause Aug 11 '14 at 14:45

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