On 2 July 2010 11:22, Alex McAuley <webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com> wrote: > But richard... Font sizes and styles aside... the span with the largest > amount of text will still be the widest and vice versa!!... > > ABCDEFG is still wider than ABCDE no matter the font size!! > > Alex Mcauley > http://www.thevacancymarket.com > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Quadling" <rquadl...@gmail.com> > To: <prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 11:57 PM > Subject: Re: [Proto-Scripty] Sorting some spans. > > >> On 1 July 2010 21:28, Alex McAuley <webmas...@thecarmarketplace.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> If I was tackling this I would attach a class and id to the spans and >>> select >>> them all then find out all of the widths of each span as a number then >>> sort >>> them into high to low / low to high then redraw them all .. Prolly not >>> the >>> most efficient but it would work. >>> >>> If you are using php you could do this without javascript based on strlen >>> of >>> the text that sits in the span and sort() / usort() the array then loop >>> it >>> ... >> >> The widths are dependent upon the font, size and styling being used, >> not under my control. >> >> The size of the display isn't under my control. >> >> So all of this is done in realtime on the client. Chrome is WAY the >> fastest in this and is not really noticeable. >> >> IE and FF are quite slow, but I've not yet optimized the code. >> >> So once the client has tidied the display, I know how many columns I >> can have to fill. >> >> The example I provided is dummy data and without the JS to do the calc. >> >> I'm stuck on the algorithm for sorting the data the way I want. I can >> see that I need to tag the spans if I want to sort them, but I can't >> work out what the sort mechanics need to be. >>
W is a LOT wider than an i And if they style this in a narrow font, I may get 8 columns. If they style with additional images (flags, logos, etc.), then the width is very much different. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
