*Is there a common use case for this functionality? I could do a proof of concept of what I described if anyone is truly interested...* *~Arne* * * On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:17 PM, John Hjelmstad <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > > > > > > > > >
