How to make the scrollbar of pop up window to roll down to the bottom by default

[selvinjebaraj]

Hi All,

I have a php page which pops up a window using window.open.
I want the scroll bar of the pop up window to scroll down to the bottom by default.
How do I go about doing this?

Regards,
Selvin

[Rakuli]

All you need to do is place an anchor link at the bottom

<a id="bottom"></a>

And when you load the page add #bottom to the URL

http://www.example.com/index.php#bottom

[selvinjebaraj]

Thanks Rakuli for ur reply . I am still unable to make the scroll bar move to the bottom by default.

I will elaborate a bit more of the exact scenario:

On click of a button , a window pops up using the following code from php page:

echo "<script>window.open('log_show?param1=$val1&param2 =$val2&param3=$val3', 'log', 'height=550,width=800')</script>";

val1 ,val2,val3 are passed to the log_show and used there. val3 here is #button as u have mentioned.

log_show is a function where I create a text area and write the contents of the text file into the text area using a foreach loop.

I have added the anchor tag <a id="button"></a> at the end of the function ( after closing the text area tag). I have also tried it at the end of echo statement.

Still I am unable to make the scroll bar move down.

Please suggest a solution.

Regards,
Selvin

[Rakuli]

Just change the script line to

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echo "<script>window.open('log_show?param1=$val1&param2 =$val2&param3=$val3#button', 'log', 'height=550,width=800')</script>";

[selvinjebaraj]

I made the change . still it is not working ..

part of the code in the function called by window.open is as follows:

?>

<textarea rows="30" cols="95"><?
$val = $_GET['param1'];
$fullpath = urldecode($val);

$data = file($fullpath);
foreach($data as $value) {
echo "$value";
} ?>
</textarea>
<a id="bottom"></a>

.. Am I going wrong in placing the anchor place ?

[unitedcraig]

This may be s stupid idea, but could you do it through htaccess.

I do not know how, but there is a way i am sure of changing the first page loaded, eg. when you type in www.website.com, you are sent to /portfolio instead of /index.

What i am saying is, could you do what rakuli said

Originally Posted by Rakuli

All you need to do is place an anchor link at the bottom

<a id="bottom"></a>

And when you load the page add #bottom to the URL

http://www.example.com/index.php#bottom

but in the htacces file, change the default page to http://www.example.com/index.php#bottom ?

I will try and find the way to do this, bear with me

[unitedcraig]

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess6.shtml

Here is how to change the default directory page, try setting it to http://www.example.com/index.php#bottom
when you have pasted <a id="bottom"></a> into your site.

It is not the most attractive way, but if it works it's simply enough.