Certain web sites are not full screen?

First, I should tell you that it is not a problem on your end, it's the way the websites are designed. The W3C standard for web design dictates a 960pixel width as ideal, or at least it did a in November of 2009 when I last looked it up.

Of course, this information does not help you, so here is how you make it display larger.

Hold the CTRL button on your keyboard while moving your mouse wheel up, this will "zoom" the website's appearance in on your computer. Hold CTRL and move the mouse wheel down to zoom out.

Hope this helps. :)

try clicking that button on the top left corner of the window. not the x, the one that looks like a big box in a little box. that's the maximize button. makes yer window fullscreen.

wait, are you talking about the big blue bars on the left and right side of websites? that's not an error, that's how they were designed. see, most websites are optimized for a monitor running 800X600. which means that when a wider resolution appears, you get those filler bars on the left and right sides of the screen.

the reason people do this is even though it's not utilizing all of the available space is 'cause if they don't, people with a lower resolution will end up with a broken page, with sections appearing in weird and unpredictable places.

Write a long paragraph in ms word. see how everything is aligned? now imagine every word is a picture, and that each of those pictures blend seamlessly with the ones next to it. now resize the window so it only takes half the screen. see how all the words are in different places? if they were images, the edges wouldn't blend anymore, and everything would look like crap. that's what happens when a low-res moniter tries to look at a high-res page.

or, and this is much more likely nowadays (though we are talking about 800*600 res monitors, so the above could definitely be the case), you get those annoying horizontal scroll bars. and those are painful too.

there is no cure for this problem other than for the web designer to change the page design.

the web designer has either

- set margins on the page CSS (as in the case with yahoo answers)

- set one page width to handle all screen sizes.

- automatically set one of a collection of several page widths to handle all screen sizes.

it's really difficult to REALLY handle all screen sizes, since there are a LOT of them. that's why I prefer not to do the last two on any of my sites. it's also difficult. And then if you do that there's printing to deal with, a whole separate CSS set of classes.

if you are talking about firefox's fullscreen mode, that's the F11 key. IE also uses the same "fullscreen" key. If you are in a panic as to how to get out of it, hit F11 again. it's a mode.

It's differences in the design of the web sites. It's not a problem on your end.

Could be a pop-up blocker. If you're using one, turn it off, and then try going to the website, and see if that will work.

Try hitting F11 (fullscreen). Still you'll see the same side (left and right) empty spaces if the website is designed like that. yeah ur rite. Yahoo Answers doesn't stretch to fullscreen. You'll still see two emply spaces on both sides.

So, It's those websites' problem....

ctrl + might do the trick