Ugh. I think I'll stick with offscreen placement. In any case for the archives adjustHeight() fails with display:none in some browsers because the JS code asks for the rendered size and modern browser don't bother to render because the content is not displayed...
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Have you tried using visibility:hidden? It should preserve the div's > dimensions and position in the page, but not render anything, so > adjustHeight should still be calculated correctly. > > If you need to remove the hidden div from it's position in the dom, you > could try positioning it absolutely and with a z-index below another > explicitly positioned item in the page, like a big display:relative > background div, although that's a bit of an ugly solution as well. > > Another approach might be to render the enclosing div as overflow:hidden, > visibility:hidden, and 1px high and 1px wide, but I don't know what the > behavior of adjustHeight will be in that case. > > ~Arne > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Paul Lindner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have a situation where I'd like to calculate render a gadget but not > > display it immediately. I set the css class display:none on a div > > surrounding the iframe. To display the gadget I remove that style. So > far > > so good. However I've noticed that in Firefox (and perhaps other places > > too) that dynamic-height will always return height 0 in this case. As a > > workaround I've moved the divs offscreen with absolute positioning, but > > that > > seems somewhat ugly. > > >
