Can we show navigation buttons but hide address?

Can we show navigation buttons but hide address?

• Adam Weigert

  Mary,

  By default, IE7 prevents sites from opening windows that hide the address bar. This is a security mitigation designed to help prevent address spoofing, phishing, and other similar forms of hanky-panky.

  You can change this behavior for a given zone through the Security tab of the Internet Options dialog.

  1. From the main menu, choose Tools | Options.
  2. Select the Security tab.
  3. Select the zone you wish to modify and then choose the Custom level button.
  4. In the Miscellaneous section, enable the "Allow websites to open windows without address or status bars."

  For more information on security zones and how they can help you customize your browser behavior, please see About URL Security Zones.

  Hope this helps...

  -- Lance
  

  
  
  

• kbromer

  Hi Mary

  We're doing the same thing as you! How did you manage to hide the address bar

  Ian

  
  

• AKA13_Intrepid

  Howdy. I appear to be running into a similar problem; we open a browser window through Javascript while omitting LOCATION. I get the desired result of an IE window without the address bar displayed. For those of us debugging the web app, though, in IE6 we would View->Toolbars->Address Bar in order to hit certain web pages directly. After upgrading to IE7, though, the option of "View->Toolbars->Address Bar " no longer appears.

  An earlier post within this thread suggests something through the Security tab of Internet Options. Unfortunately, our administrator would never enable such access. Is there a way I could achieve this through Regedit Or is there some other way for me to see the Address Bar in IE7 similar to how I used to in IE6

  
  

• buddy_dotcom

  Thanks for the reply, Lance. We have a workstation set up for testing our apps in IE7, and we're not having problems hiding the address bar. The problem we've run into was caused by moving the navigation buttons (back, forward, refresh, stop) into the address bar. In IE6 the navigation buttons weren't on the address bar. We don't want our users to be able to copy the address, but they still need to be able to use navigation functions. Other than rewriting applications to include back and forward links (in somecases, this is impossible), is there a way of showing the navigation buttons without displaying the address bar. Thanks, again.

  Mary

  
  

• Jason D. Camp

  Mary,

  Hm. I think you'll need to add a frame (or some other mechansim) to your application that duplicates the navigation buttons using script.

  Sorry, but I can't think of an alternate approach. As far as I can tell, the address bar cannot be separated from the button bar in IE7.

  -- Lance

  
  
  

• robear

  I use open.window with all arguments set to =no ... toolbar=no, location=no aso. in IE6 you would get a window with no address bar and in IE7 you get the address bar. I've seen sites where the address bar is a readonly dropdown box, but on my sites it is not readonly which means that the user can distrubt my web application by pressing the stop button and so on or by altering the url. As it not possible to hide the addressbar from the user - can i atleast set the address bar readonly and how

  
  
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