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

[Ben S. <ben...@tr...>]

All hail Jordi, King of the Netscape "feature" work-arounds!

that rocks... 

ben

Jordi Ministral wrote:
> 
> 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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