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

[Jordi M. <jmi...@or...>]

The presence of scrollbars in Netscape is calculated once using the document.width
/ document.height values. Once the page has been reloaded, these properties can be
set by your scripts in order to make the scrollbars appear. The only problem is
that this can only be done ONCE. Further modifications will be simply ignored. I
don't know the reason for such behaviour.

Hope this helps

Ben Sargent wrote:

> 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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