RE: [Dynapi-Help] Big Layers & Netscape Scollbars

[Jack_Speranza <jsp...@gr...>]

Yeah... there's never an easy answer (or so it seems :-)  My answer to this
problem was to create some static visual content that at least made it
half-way acceptable for there to be blank space at the bottom of the page
(colorful margin layers, footers, etc.).  Until I become more familiar with
web development (a new career for me...), inelegant solutions look like they
will be a part of life... (is it too optomistic for me to think they will
ever disappear?)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Sargent [mailto:ben...@tr...]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 12:12 PM
To: dyn...@li...
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Help] Big Layers & Netscape Scollbars


It's helpful in that now I know *where* to start looking for a
solution.  I was hoping that there might be an elegant DynAPI way of
doing this.  My problem is that I'm creating a series of dynlayers whose
height is determined by their HTML content... which isn't determined
until after load time.  At the very least, I can create a "worst
possible scenario" page size using some static content, but then my page
will end up with a lot of blank space at the end :(

ben

Jack_Speranza wrote:
> 
> I encountered this same problem, and I believe it was addressed at one
point
> in the sourceForge forums (buried deep somewhere by now!). As I understand
> it, because of the way Netscape operates, it won't provide scrollbars for
> dynamic layers that appear outside of the visible window (unless there is
> some static content that is in the same area).  My rather inelegant
solution
> was to make sure there was some "invisible" static content wherever I was
> going to be placing my dynLayers.  Don't know if you find this helpful or
> not...
> 
> Jack
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Sargent [mailto:ben...@tr...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 11:10 AM
> To: DynAPI Help
> Subject: [Dynapi-Help] Big Layers & Netscape Scollbars
> 
> Hello.  I posted this to the forums a few days ago, but it may have
> gotten lost in the mailing-list shuffle, so hopefully nobody minds if I
> post it here as well.
> 
> Basically, I want to create several large layers one after another on a
> page. However, once the layers (or group of layers) get larger than the
> browser height, Netscape doesn't provide me with scrollbars. IE is very
> nice about this. How do I get Netscape to let me scroll down my page?
> 
> Thanks,
> ben
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