[ILUG-Webdev] Resizing windows

[Lee Hosty]

At 01:09 PM 11/03/2003 +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:

>I presume this works - however, it doesn't do anything different to what I
>already do from the server as I know the size of the image when I build the

Apologies. Was just posting a version that should work in more than NN4 - 
as did Adam. Mine was DOM compliant AFAIK, his wasn't but certainly worked 
on a lot of browsers.

>page. What causes me problems is the text which appears under the image.
>Depending on the phase of the moon and numerous factors, this text is going
>to occupy differing amounts of space and this is what causes the window size
>to need to be different. I can just make the window considerably longer than
>it need be, but then I usually end up with a lot of white space below the
>text which looks very poor. The code I posted

Ah yes. I remember you brought this up a few months ago :)

It is hackable but very ugly. Something along the lines of the following 
(this is not working code):

<div id="myDescription">and in here goes our <b>description</b></div>

   totalChars = document.getElementById("myDescription").innerText.length;
   totalWidth = totalChars * averageCharWidth;

   if (totalWidth > myWidth) {
     // account for line wrap here, ie. increment your line height by some 
set average line height
   }

and so on. Course this would only work on more modern browsers - if using 
NN4 you're out on your own. It could possibly be hackable in a similar way, 
but I'm going nowhere near it :) What sort of percentage of visitors to 
this site use NN4 ?


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