Yeah, this has been a problem for quite some time. As best I can tell, there's nothing you can do about it (re: auto-detection anyway). I suppose we could bake this (off-screen or visibility:hidden) logic into common container management JS for gadgets using dynamic-height. --John
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Paul Lindner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > >
