Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 06/11/06 20:22

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Stefan Mueller wrote:

> On my webpage I'd like to show several small pictures which people
> can click to get the large pictures.
>
> I do that with
> <a href="big_picture.gif"><img src="small_picture.gif"></a>
>
> The problem is, that if the browser window is not big enough the big
> picture is not shown in its original size.

As a reader, I don't find that a problem. If and when I want to see
the picture full sized, I tell the browser to do so.

> I gets automatically resized so that it fits to the browser window.

That depends on the browser and its settings.

> How can I avoid that?

If you (as author) manage to find a way to do that, then I (as reader)
will look for a client-side way to stop you from doing it.

> I'd like to have scroll bars in the browser window instead.

Then adjust your own browser accordingly, and leave ours to do what we
prefer them to do.

thanks

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