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Issue with iFrame Element not re-sizing within container

I am working on a small VA project and I am attempting to pull stats from another website. The only way I have been able to find out how to do this, is by using an iFrame with the clip function.
Website is: NWGlobalVA.com
Now the Issue I am having is if you go to the main page and re-size the browser in anyway it pushes behind the map element. I have tried everything in my knowledge and research to make it re-size with the container.
Below is the code I use with the iFrame and CSS to do the clipping. Any help would be much more appreciated then you will understand. I have been trying to do this for a couple days now. Ideally I would rather just get the information once every 15 minutes and pass it to my database. However on the website none of the tables are defined and I would know how to go about that.
<style>
.iframeb {
position: absolute;
left:-384px;
right:0px;
top: -145px;
clip: rect(190px, 625px, 350px, 400px);
}</style>
<iframe width="890" height="1900" src="http://fscloud-infotool.de/index.php?page=vasystem&subpage=vadetails&id=10277" class="iframeb" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>

The way I deal with iframe size is with javascript (jquery):
I calculated the original iframe aspect ratio by taking the width/height. So in your case: 890/1900.
<script>
function size_iFrame()
{
// If the width and height of the iframe are set
// as attributes (<iframe width='890' height='1900'>),
// you can have the js calculate it for you.
// aspect= $('iframe').attr('width') / $('iframe').attr('height');
aspect= 0.47;
$('iframe').css('width', '100%');
$('iframe').css('height', $('iframe').width() / aspect);
}
$(document).ready(function()
{
size_iFrame();
$(window).resize(function()
{
size_iFrame();
});
}
</script>
This will fit the iframe to the width of its container and give it the same aspect ratio as it initially had.
Edit: To answer your question, i'd call it from the ready callback and setup and window resize callback to call every time the screen size changes. I edited my code above to show this.
Edit2: As #mugé points out, you'll also need to remove your iframe css styling for my method to work.

In responsive design, I assign the iframe a container sized inside the CSS. For example,
CSS
.iframe_container {
display: inline;
float: left;
width: 89%; //whatever width you want
}
You will need to eliminate your .iframeb absolute, right, left positionings, because the container will take care of it all, unless you are talking about the 'List' parameters on top of the map, I would try to use #media to arrange clean lists according to screen sizes for the .iframeb class.

Get rid of useless scroll bars on fancybox iframe

I have some content I want to show in iframe with fancybox. When I use it, it pops up with horizontal and vertical scroll bars even though all the content is inside of it. Inspecting it in Firefox shows that when I click on html everything is inside but there is a little left over that is outside of the highlighted box. The next level up is iframe.fancybox-iframe which includes the scroll bars. I looked at the css and that has padding and margins set to zero so I don't know why the scroll bars are there. Right now as far as options I just have autoSize:false. All I have inside the body of the page I want to show is a form.

If anyone wonders which class name to use
.fancybox-inner {
overflow: hidden !important;
}
And if you found a small white background you can reset it using
.fancybox-skin {
background: inherit;
}

Try adding this to the css:
.style{
overflow: hidden;
}
If it didn't help, please post your HTML and CSS.

Move loading div down as ajax content loads

The form I am creating for a mobile website shows new fields based on previous selections. i.e. - a user selects and option from a dropdown menu (a date) and then a series of times shows up based on the day selected. The times are not showing until the day is selected.
I have a spinning loading div while the times are loaded in the background via ajax. The problem I am having is that the loading div sits at the top of the page when the 'action' is taking place about three-quarters of the way down. This 'action' part is in the viewport (it's a mobile website) and the loading div is at the top of the page - which is far above the users viewport.
How can I bring the loading div down so that it's always in the current viewport? How can I make the loading div follow the place in the form where the user currently is taking into account scrollbars?
I have been trying to use the vertically centred html/CSS model as described here:
http://www.jakpsatweb.cz/css/css-vertical-center-solution.html
But it is not working and the centre of the page doesn't seem to update at each event when a form element is clicked. I think I need to use the focus or blur event for the form field to update this and reassess, but I don't seem to be able to get it working.
Does anyone have any tips on how to move the loading div to the centre of the current viewport area each time the page increases in length?

If your loading div is designed to be inside the document flow - e.g. a new content block inside the form - it's best to use jQuery to insert the loading div inside the content itself. It will be very difficult to position it pixel-perfect otherwise.
If the loading div is to appear as an overlay to the document then you can use fixed CSS positioning with a high z-index. To center it on all screen resolutions use jQuery and the formula (window.height() - div.height())/2 as the top pixel position. The code will be similar to this answer.
Hope that helps

If you do something like this, and put the div inside your <body> tag, it will stay in the middle of the visible area.
div.loading {
position: fixed;
top: 47%;
left: 47%;
height: 6%;
width: 6%;
z-index: 1000;
}
Another solution is to put it at the end of the container content will be loading into. Just make sure to load the content before it. If you give it a margin:auto; it'll stay right in the middle and keep pushing down.
EDIT: It's also worth noting the answer here. This will prevent covering up something important in a way the user can't fix.

Set your loading div's position to fixed, this will of course cause it to escape from its parent in the DOM structure, you will then need to position it where you want it. Fixed positioning is relative to the visible area of the viewport.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#loader {
height: 30px;
position: fixed;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
background: #ccc;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="loader">Loading...</div>
</body>
</html>
This will result in the loader div always being centered on the screen, no matter where the user has scrolled, left/right up/down.

How do I know if my content takes up the whole page vertically?

I have a site that I've been working on the the past couple of weeks. I have a very nice footer on it, problem is, it doesn't stay at the bottom. I've come up with a simple solution.
If the page isn't completely filled (i.e. the content only goes half way down), absolute position the footer to the bottom.
If the page is overflowing (vertically), leave the footer as just another element.
Problem is, I don't know how to check if my content is overfilled. Is there a way to check if the document fills up all the space vertically? The only thing I can think of is to check to see if the vertical scroll-bar is enabled, however, I don't know how to check for that either.
I'm using jQuery, answers with it are fine. Thanks!
EDIT
OK, my question was apparently misunderstood. Sorry guys, I don't need solutions on how to keep my footer at the bottom. I need ways of determining if data overflows on the y-axis. I happened to mention my reason why I needed to know this. Don't make me regret this guys :p

I've used this successfully many times over: http://cssstickyfooter.com. No JavaScript needed at all.

Using jQuery, $(window).height() is how you get the height of the viewport. You can check this value against your content's height:
if($("#content").height() > $(window).height()) {
// absolute position my footer
}

Use the Sticky Footer technique like Matt posted.
The basic idea of it is that you set a static height for your footer. Make your webpage take up the full height of the browser. Push the footer off the screen from the #content div, and then move the footer back onto the page with a negative margin value.

It's hard to answer without seeing your HTML, but if you are using jquery just use outerHeight to get the vertical size of the elements on your page and compare it to window.height

You could apply the css clearfix trick. As stated it is hard with out seeing your code. Even still this could work.
Example:
<html>
<style>
.clearfix:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="content" class="clearfix">
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
</body>
</html>
This helps to keep content from overflowing and should keep your footer at the bottom or below your content.

Relative Positioning at bottom of the screen issue with Flex and different browsers

I have a flex component like this:
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
...
width="100%"
height="100%"
creationComplete="init()">
.......
<components:NavigationBar id="nagivationBar"
left="0" bottom="0" />
This is supposed to show at the bottom left of the screen considering that parent container fills the screen.
The behaviour I just described shows perfectly with Safari
with Chrome it shows correctly if the download bar beneath is not visible but as soon as the download bar has something it covers the bottom part of it.
and FireFox seems to always hide like 50 pixels or so from the bottom of the screen.
It seems like every browser renders the 100% height in its own way.
What is your recommended best way to overcome this? I can add a 100 pixel margin at the bottom but it's not something I want to do in this application.

Try something like this in the <head></head> section of the HTML page that loads your Flex Application:
<style type="text/css">
html, body{
width: 100%; /* make the body expand to fill the visible window */
height: 100%;
padding: 0 0 0 0;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
Not sure it will help in your case but it's easy to try.

You could wrap the output in a containing <div>, then using YUI's getClientRegion, and a resize event for good measure, set the containing div's CSS height property to the value which YUI has determined the available viewport vertical space.
Sorry the solution is an outside-of-Flex one, but it'll work.
Edit: I meant 'getViewportHeight()' not 'getClientRegion()', sorry, check out the APi docs though, there's plenty of goodies in there for this sort of stuff.

Flex is just a flash component in a web page. Its size depends of what is outside of flex. I don't think you'll get a proper answer unless you post HTML/JS code surrounding flex app.
PS. From my experience working with browser height may be very troublesome.

this normally happens when you have one or more positioning elements in a page. Check your code to see if you have used the position element anywhere else in your code, if so are they different, i.e one relative and the other absolute, if so this could be your problem, its reccomended that they are all the same, ie all relative