### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-html-question/366297/1 "2006-07-27T17:49:04Z")
OK this is driving me nuts.
I just want to open a new window with the target=\_blank in attribute of the anchor tag. No problem. Thing is, I can’t get the window to be a specific height and width.
I’ve tried -
\test htm\
Neither opens up the window at the smaller size.
I’m seeing zebras, what’s up?
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-html-question/366297/2 "2006-07-27T17:57:46Z")
If you want to open up a window with specific attributes (height, width, etc) you’ll have to use JS to do it.
function openWindow(url)
{
wheight=“200”;
wwidth=“410”;
wleft=“200”;
wtop=“200”;
opts=‘width=’ + wwidth + ‘,height=’+wheight+ ‘,status=yes,resizable=1,left=’ + wleft + ‘,top=’+wtop;
newWindow=window.open(url,‘windowname’,opts);
}
TTBOMK, you cannot set options on the ‘default’ target(s) (\_blank, \_new, etc).
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-html-question/366297/3 "2006-07-27T17:59:01Z")
secondly, in your \ tag above, the style you’ve put in only refers to the element itself, not the window you’re trying to open.
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-html-question/366297/4 "2006-07-27T17:59:43Z")
You can’t do it just HTML, but you can with JavaScript. [This site](http://www.hooverwebdesign.com/templates/new-window-generator.html) holds your hand and actually generates the code for you to insert in your HTML.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-html-question/366297/5 "2006-07-27T18:05:26Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#):
>
> You can’t do it just HTML, but you can with JavaScript. [This site](http://www.hooverwebdesign.com/templates/new-window-generator.html) holds your hand and actually generates the code for you to insert in your HTML.
Cool, thanks. I was sure I had lust done it with HTML before.
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [July 27, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simple-html-question/366297/6 "2006-07-27T18:38:46Z")
Here’s script you can embed within the link itself:
\