What is the truth?
Microsoft's documentation describing the behaviour of their browser is correct.
Is there any solution to hide the addressbar?
No. If you could hide it, then you could use HTML/CSS to make something that looked like a common address bar. You could then put a different address in it. You could then trick people into thinking they were on a different site and entering their password for it.
It is impossible to conceal the user's location from them because it is essential for security that they know what their location is.
Answer from Quentin on Stack OverflowWhat is the truth?
Microsoft's documentation describing the behaviour of their browser is correct.
Is there any solution to hide the addressbar?
No. If you could hide it, then you could use HTML/CSS to make something that looked like a common address bar. You could then put a different address in it. You could then trick people into thinking they were on a different site and entering their password for it.
It is impossible to conceal the user's location from them because it is essential for security that they know what their location is.
This is no longer possible in modern browsers due to security restrictions.
Official(-ish) Sources:
Firefox
In Firefox 3, dom.disable_window_open_feature.location now defaults to true, forcing the presence of the Location Bar much like in IE7. See bug 337344 for more information.
Internet Explorer 7 and later
In Internet Explorer 6, location specifies whether to display the Address Bar.
(Implying the behaviour ends with IE6)
Chrome/Chromium
Those toolbar hiding parameters are ignored in Chrome. You will also notice that modern browsers are moving towards not hiding it as security / anti phishing measures. Also see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337344
location is the window feature you want to set to no or 0 to hide the address bar.
Opinionated Advice: You can't rely on popups showing because most people have popup blockers installed to curb abuse, so if you can get away with it, don't use a pop up at all! Use something like the jQuery UI Dialog plugin.
Example:
window.open("http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.htm", "mywindow", "location=0,menubar=0,status=0,scrollbars=0,width=100,height=100");
Format
window.open( [Url] [, Name] [, Features] [, History] )
Window features you can control
- status The status bar at the bottom of the window.
- toolbar The standard browser toolbar, with buttons such as Back and Forward.
- location The Location entry field where you enter the URL.
- menubar The menu bar of the window
- resizable Allow/Disallow the user to resize the window.
- scrollbars Enable the scrollbars if the document is bigger than the window
- height Specifies the height of the window in pixels. (example: height=’350′)
- width Specifies the width of the window in pixels.
(untested)
function openWindow(){
var browser=navigator.appName;
if (browser==”Microsoft Internet Explorer”)
{
window.opener=self;
}
window.open(‘filename.htm’,'null’,'width=900,height=750,
toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,location=no,resizable =yes’);
window.moveTo(0,0);
window.resizeTo(screen.width,screen.height-100);
self.close();
}
Got this from http://saher42.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/hiding-the-address-bar-on-pageload-using-javascript/.
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How to Disable popup window Address bar?
opening a new window and hiding the addressbar and ...
Firefox 3.0 and higher have disabled setting location by default. resizable and status are also disabled by default. You can verify this by typing `about:config' in your address bar and filtering by "dom". The items of interest are:
- dom.disable_window_open_feature.location
- dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable
- dom.disable_window_open_feature.status
You can get further information at the Mozilla Developer site. What this basically means, though, is that you won't be able to do what you want to do.
One thing you might want to do (though it won't solve your problem), is put quotes around your window feature parameters, like so:
window.open('/pageaddress.html','winname','directories=no,titlebar=no,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=400,height=350');
I agree we can not hide address bar in modern browsers, but we can hide the URL in address bar (e.g show URL about:blank). The following is my work around solution:
var iframe = '<html><head><style>body, html {width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0}</style></head><body><iframe src="https://www.w3schools.com" style="height:calc(100% - 4px);width:calc(100% - 4px)"></iframe></body></html>';
var win = window.open("","","width=600,height=480,toolbar=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes");
win.document.write(iframe);
This is no longer possible in modern browsers due to security restrictions.
Official(-ish) Sources:
Firefox
In Firefox 3, dom.disable_window_open_feature.location now defaults to true, forcing the presence of the Location Bar much like in IE7. See bug 337344 for more information.
Internet Explorer 7 and later
In Internet Explorer 6, location specifies whether to display the Address Bar.
(Implying the behaviour ends with IE6)
Chrome/Chromium
Those toolbar hiding parameters are ignored in Chrome. You will also notice that modern browsers are moving towards not hiding it as security / anti phishing measures. Also see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337344
ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(GetType(), "openwindow", "<script type=text/javascript> window.open('abc.aspx?id=" + str_id + "','null','location=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,addressbar=0,titlebar=no,directories=no,channelmode=no,status=no'); </script>");
You cannot hide the address bar in modern browsers. That is a security measure. Users should always know on what page they are on. Also, the address bar showns what type of page it is (HTTP or HTTPS) and information of that webpage if it is secure.
So: sorry, but you cannot do that.
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.