Describes the structure of a top-level window. It is the root node of a XUL document. It is by default a horizontally oriented box. As is it a box, all box attributes can be used. By default, the window will have a platform-specific frame around it.

For properties and methods, see the XUL Window object.

Attributes inherited from XUL Element

Determines the horizontal alignment of the children of the window.

• left: The elements are aligned on their left edges.
• center: The elements are centered.
• right: The elements are aligned on their right edges.

In the window is placed inside a horizontally oriented box, autostretch determines whether the window stretches vertically to fit the given space. For vertically oriented boxes, determines whether the window stretches horizontally to fit the given space. Stetching in the opoosite direction is controlled with the flex attribute.

• never: The window is never stretched and is displayed at the size specified by its width and height attributes or by the CSS width and height properties.
• always: The window stretches to fill the given space.

If true, then the window is collapsed and does not appear. It is equavalent to setting the CSS visibility property to collapsed.

If the label of the window is too small to fit in its given space, the text will be cropped on the side specified by the crop attribute. An ellipsis will be placed in place of the cropped text.

• left: The text will be cropped on its left side.
• right: The text will be cropped on its right side.
• center: The text will be cropped on both sides.
• none: The text will be not be cropped using an ellipsis. However, the text will simply be cut off if it too large. The side depends on the CSS text alignment.

If true, extra borders are drawn around the element and all its descendants. This can be used to determine orientation and where flexible elements are. If debug mode is enabled for a box, horizontal oriented boxes are displayed with a blue border and vertical boxes are displayed with a red border. The border above the element will be straight for non-flexible elements and wavy for flexible elements.

Indicates the flexibility of the window. Flexible elements grow and shrink to fit their given space. The actual value is not relevant unless there are other flexible elements with-in the same container. Elements with larger flex values will grow more than elements with lower flex values, at the ratio determined by the two elements.

The height of the window in pixels. It is recommended to use the CSS height property instead.

For elements placed within a bulletinboard, specifies the position of the left edge of the window.

Used to specify whether the children of the window element are oriented horizontally or vertically.

• horizontal: Child elements of the window are placed next to each other in a row in the order that they appear in the XUL source.
• vertical: Child elements of the window are placed under to each other in a column in the order that they appear in the XUL source.

A space separated list of attributes that are maintained when the window is closed. When the window is re-opened, the values of persistant attributes are restored. In Mozilla, persistant attributes are stored in the per profile file localstore.rdf.

The text to appear on the title bar of the window.

For elements placed within a bulletinboard, specifies the position of the top edge of the window.

Determines the vertical alignment of the children of the window.

• top: Elements are aligned by their top edges.
• middle: Elements are centered vertically.
• bottom: Elements are aligned by their bottom edges.
• baseline: Elements are aligned by their text baseline.

The width of the window in pixels. It is recommended to use the CSS width property instead.