All: Note that Alann has cross-posted this to the new group, so don't reply here.
-- T.J. On Jul 12, 11:57 am, AlannY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 2 problems with Prototype's <new Element> method. > > 1. I have a lot of DOM elements created manualy with <new Element>. I > have already about 1000 lines of code with just <new Element>. When I > added it to the dome with <body.appendChild(root)> it takes a lot of > time to insert. How to optimize it? > > May be it's better to use simple HTML (may be with <new Template>) and > then PUT in on DOM. But how? Is there any body.appendChild(HTML) > method? As I can imaging appendChild takes a DOM element as a > parameter ;-) > > 2. I need computation of width and height of elements created by the > <new Element> method. As you may know, first of all, I should add my > element in DOM, SHOW it and then get width and height. But, as I just > say, I'm creating a lot of <new Elements> in my script and some of > them SHOULD not be displayed before one point ;-) But the other > elements (childs, as you can imaging) should get width and height. > > So, I'm adding <new Elements> to the DOM first of all and SHOW it > every time. But, Opera start render this elements before the script > ends execution (Firefox, Safari do it in opposite direction), so I > have a very ugly effect, where hundreds of elements renders "on fly". > I mean, all of this elements MUST be rendered after script is > finished. I know, that I should just hide the root of my elements, but > how to compute width and height after that? > > Thank you for your patient ;-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
