Re[2]: [Dynapi-Dev] Width/Height and LoadPanel in NS6

[Robert R. <rra...@ya...>]

The problem with getContentW/H is affecting almost all of the other
widgets in NS 6, especially the ones that use the label since it
relies on those methods.  So, we should fix these methods before
making changes to the widgets.
-- 
// Robert Rainwater

On 1/23/2001, 4:53:11 AM EST, Cameron wrote about "[Dynapi-Dev] Width/Height and LoadPanel in NS6":

> I have done something similar. However I don't think that offsetWidth and
> offsetHeight do quite do the right thing, what we need is a Netscape 6
> equivalent to IE's scrollWidth and scrollHeight.

> For those who are interested, Mozilla has offsetHeight and offsetWidth (see
> http://www.mozilla.org/status/2000-08-04.html), but not scrollHeight and
> scrollWidth. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/om/measuring.asp
> for an explanation of the difference. The problem I have with offsetHeight
> in LoadPanel is because I always set the height of the LoadPanel, the height
> I have set is returned by offsetHeight, not the true height of the content.
> However when I load a new page in LoadPanel if I write the HTML into a new
> child DynLayer that has no dimensions set on it, then offsetHeight returns
> the correct contentHeight of the new Layer.

> There isn't a lot of documentation on these measurements either, because
> they aren't part of the DOM as far as I can tell.

> Cheers

> Cameron.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dyn...@li...
>> [mailto:dyn...@li...]On Behalf Of
>> ni...@pr...
>> Sent: 22 January 2001 23:37
>> To: dyn...@li...
>> Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Width/Height
>>
>>
>> this is what I use :
>> DynLayer.prototype.getContentWidth=function() {
>>     if (!this.created) return 0
>>     else {
>>         if (is.ns4) return this.doc.width
>>         else if (is.ns5) return parseInt(this.elm.offsetWidth)
>>               else return parseInt(this.elm.scrollWidth)
>>     }
>> }
>> DynLayer.prototype.getContentHeight=function() {
>>     if (!this.created) return 0
>>     else {
>>         if (is.ns4) return this.doc.height
>>         else if (is.ns5) return parseInt(this.elm.offsetHeight)
>>         else return parseInt(this.elm.scrollHeight)
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> > and none seem to work.  This is the source of several problems
>> with the DynAPI in NS 6.
>>
>> this is true if you try to getContentWidth and Height
>> before the layer it's actually shown in the page
>> coz the browser itself takes time to get the info aboutthe layer
>> ,(sorry but my english sucks)
>>
>> I've tested in many ways and like i said before in the
>> widget-list the only way is to put a setTimeout for ns6
>> but that cause other problem when u have a lot of nested layers
>> or complex widget
>>
>> once the layer it's on the page u can
>> alert(myLayer.getContentWidth()) and it will work
>>
>> ciao
>> Y
>> >
>> > --
>> > // Robert Rainwater
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