why are the web pages bigger than the screen?
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Vertically, it's because there's often more content than screen real estate. Horizontally, it's usually bad design on the part of the webmaster. Webmasters are supposed to design for 800 x 600 screen resolution. Of course, sidebars like Google Desktop may cause pages to scroll horizontally that normally wouldn't.
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With your mouse drag the edges until the page is full. Don't maximize it with the top bar or maximize button, drag it with the mouse.\n\nOnce you have it full size close it. The next time you open it it will open maximized.
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Maybe your IE settings got changed. Open your browser, click on View in the Menu, select Text and pick a larger size.
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Do you mean to change it to landscape mode?  That would put it so the page is longer than wider.\n\n   1.  On the File menu, click Page Setup, and then click the Margins tab.\n   2. Under Orientation, click Portrait or Landscape.\n\nGood luck!
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in internet explorer go to VIEW > TEXT SIZE and adjust it to medium.\n\nyou can also do this if your mouse has a center wheel. hold down CTRL and roll the wheel forward and back to see the text zoom in and out. this doesn't work on all sites. that's because the webmaster used pixel and point sizes in the source code. they should have used EM measurements or percentages.\n\nthe page you are reading now uses EM measurements so try what i showed you above
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You're probably trying to solve the wrong problem. Rather than detecting the screen size, and adjusting the page to cope, try creating a layout which adapts itself to the screen size.\n\nThese are usually called liquid or fluid layouts, for example, see some of the layouts here:\nhttp://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ThreeColumnLayouts\n\nYou're asking for a script that doesn't use CSS. Usually, the typical way to hide an item, assuming you have a handle on the object called foo, is to write:\n\nfoo.style.display = "none"\n\ntherefore using CSS. If you really can't use CSS, an alternative would be to remove the div altogether, via:\n\nfoo.parentNode.removeChild( foo )\n\nSince detection of the resolution could be done with the (non-standard) screen object, a simple script would be (in appropriate tags):\n\nif(screen.x <1024) {\n  foo = document.getElementById( "theid" )\n  foo.parentNode.removeChild( foo )\n}
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once updated it should be 1024x768, but the truth is it should only be limited by the resolution that your monitor can handle without making things too small that you can see them or too big that webpages wont properly fit on the screen.
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I think the problem is probably screen resolution. I know you said that you've tried adjusting your screen width, but maybe your monitor is too small for everything to fit on.\n\nYou see, in HTML (website programming), when you type something, and it reaches the end of a line, it jumps to the next. Likewise, if all the links can't fit on one line, one will jump to the next line.\n\nStill, it is strange that the link appears over a text box. Maybe it is something wrong with Yahoo's programming, but I doubt it. My searches are working fine.\n\nTry setting your text size by going to View -> Text size. Select a text smaller than the one currently selected. (This is for Internet Explorer)\n\nHope that could help...
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ey, if u'r using Internet Explorer , go to :\nView >> Text size >> Medium or small or what every u want ..\nhow is it now ?
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It really depends on what the site is for.  If it is some hobby site that you could care less about the people with low res monitors, then go ahead and go bigger.  However, there are many people with lower res monitors than you think.  I design web sites, and in testing my sites on other computers and platforms I still see allot of monitors just at 1024 or less. And even if people have the better monitor, I see allot of people surfing the web with the browser not at maximized size.  On top of that, many people keep their laptops at a low to medium res because of the small monitor.  Although I would like to design with a larger canvas, I keep to the 800X600 size.  Try designing your site that it looks like it spans any resolution, but all the content stays in the 800X600 box.
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To view the full webpage...go to your desktop...rightclick your mouse and go to "properties"..then "settings"...then change screen resolution to 1024x768 then click apply.\n\nGood Luck
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This may depend on the type of Browser you're using. I noticed something similar to this when I use Internet Explorer (IE) browser. If I had multiple IE browser sessions going of different sizes and then shut them all down it seemed as if IE remembered the size of the last IE browser window I closed. Because when I then opened/started up a new IE browser session/window it sized it according to the last IE browser session I closed. \n\nSo as a long shot the next time you close down all your browser sessions make sure the last one is sized to the way you like it before you shut it down.
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This is not really a problem but happens by design. About the only way to stop this is by designing your page to fit with an 800x600 pixel screen.\n\nMake the content area of your page (usually a <div>..</div> area if done properly) so it is around 780 pixels wide. Never use the full 800 as you have to allow for scrollbars.\n\nThe best way of doing this is to make an outer containing div area with <div style="text-align:center"> then within that make another with <div style="margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:780px"> (this will give you a static 780pixel wide area that will always be centered in the screen so none of the text or text areas will ever resize.\n\nThe cons of this effect are that on anything above 1024x768 your site will look like a bamboo pole in the middle of a crazy amount of padding space. You only have 780pixels of space to play with across the screen no matter what resolution is used. If viewed in a window anything less than 800 pixels wide you will get horizontal scroll bars.\n\nA suggestion, Look for 'fluid layout' in google (or your fav search engine) and dont worry about the site looking exactly the same to ALL users as it will never happen.
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assume the entire screen size is between 640x480(lamer sized)  and 1200x1600(my size)\n\nmake the site look good with both extremes and everything in the middle!\n\nuse css, never specify exact point sizes (that's old school), make sure  the page looks good when you boost the font size or cut it way down... (via the menu)
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Reduce the font that the page is displayed in. Assuming you are using Internet Explorer, do this way... menu VIEW / TEXT SIZE / MEDIUM or any other option that suits you best.
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on the tool bar at the top of the page go to view, text size and select a smaller test size \n\nthe size chosen will apply to all web pages so you may have to change it back.
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Web pages today are pretty sophisticated. Most modern pages use layers to organise the information presented on them.\n\nSometimes, this situation you see could be a product of:\n* Error in coding.\n* Browser compatibility issues.\n* Error in transmition.\n\nIf it's the latter, sometimes a refresh will solve the problem. If not, you're likely to continue to see it unless the cause issue is corrected.