I'm trying to add a gradient fade on content that overflows a , as seen here: http://jsfiddle.net/6k3vV/
On the div I have a set height of 200 pixels
I want to optionally show the fade depending on whether or not the content actually overflows the 200px
Things work ok if I have all the content/resources already loaded:
Something like <h1>Hello World</h1> will work fine and I can calculate the height that that would occupy
if I insert it into the document
However, if I have something like <h1>Hello World</h1><img src=".." /> it will not work as I cannot reliably
determine the height the contents would occupy until the image itself is loaded.
I'm trying to add this functionality on a comments page where I inject each comment into a wrapping div and optionally
display the gradient fade. The current solution that I am thinking of is checking for and tag and attaching an onload
event handler that will calculate the height after the image loads.
is there a better way of doing this?
Since you have a set height, it's easy. On doc load (or an event), just check the height of each "section" and append a div w/ the class fadeout if that height is greater than 200.
Fiddle for you
I would recommend adding a class to your <section> element rather than using that element as a whole selector.
You may want to play around with using the height of .fadeout as a % rather than em
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I have a script that dynamically inserts a div containing text in the dom. The text content is not known in advance.
I need to know the width of this div, but it seems that that the return value of document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(node, "").getPropertyValue("width") or node.offsetWidth cannot be trusted.
I used setInterval to log it, and the value changes over time. For instance, in my case it starts with 929px and then changes to 908px.
This div is in position absolute, it has whitespace nowrap, so I don't think it is being "pushed" by other dom elements or that it somehow changes once inserted.
Is there an elegant way to retrieve the width, or do I have to use an ugly setTimeout to retrieve it once the return value is stable ?
Try:
yourDOMElement.getClientBoundingRect()
This will return an object with top, left, right, bottom, height and width attributes. This should be cross-browser.
Note: If you are going to work with the position attributes (top, left, right, bottom, height) of the returned, take into account scroll offset if necessary.
Update: To ensure this works on older browsers that don't have the width/height attribute, calculate it subtracting right/bottom from left/top.
The viewport can change its size because of the scrollbar. Once the scrollbar appears, its width can no longer be used by the document. Force the scrollbar to exist before you measure the size by adding overflow: scroll or overflow-y:scroll to the <html> element.
The size of a block-level element is, by default, its container width minus margins and padding (even if it's positioned absolutely), which is ultimately the wiewport width unless you set a fixed width somewhere along the way.
Using jQuery, you should be able to do this:
var width = $("div-selector").width();
this is fairly easy?
open the page in a browser and press f12. With firefox there is a button "inspect element" on top and in chrome it's on the bottom. Click it and hover your mouse over it. This should give you the height and width in px. Never been wrong for me.
if it still doesn't show, click it and you can see it in the css panel of the console.
I'm trying to get the height of an initially hidden div element in Netscape and Firefox using javascript (it works fine in IE). I have tried using MyElement.scrollHeight, MyElement.offetHeight, MyElement.style.height and many different ways of setting the element initially visible, getting the height and then hiding it again. I keep getting a value of 0. Any thoughts?
Correct me if I'm wrong (Which I may be), but from doing some research, elements with display: none have no height.
To get the height, you would need to unhide them, get the height, then rehide them. Issues like this have popped up in the past like so:
jQuery: height()/width() and "display:none"
jQuery: Get height of hidden element in jQuery
(Both jQuery examples, but you get the point)
Hidden elements in Netscape is not accessible.
you can set that position with styling hole of div out of your screen. for example move it to -9999 on top left. then you can access that's attributes like height and width.
you can also visible that element and get your attribute and hide it again, but it is not usual because your element will be show a little bit of the second and user maybe feel jumping on screen.
you should position it by setting style to "absolute" and "top" to -9999px or more (depend of your project height) and then get your element height and width with DOM and anythings that you want ...
Have you noticed that by using jquery's slideDown(), even on elements with dynamic content, you always get the perfect height of the effected element. Which is, for me at least, impossible to do by simply animating the css height value. Mostly because there is no way for me to know how did the height of an element (with a display:none) changed, during a dynamic content (AJAX) update.
And since i've been working on some custom controls, i do need that capability to calculate things the way slideDown() does.
If you are inserting a new dinamically loaded content, it means you have that element in memory, so you can refer to it and know its height. You only have to read its height (or maybe outerHeight) and slide by that amount.
EDIT
Just give a height of 0 to the hiden item and overflow:hidden, so that the content inside it won't be sohwn, and it will retain its height.
http://jsfiddle.net/jgyLm/9/
You can try this after appending the dynamic content to the element.
$(element).height();
$(element).outerHeight();//if you need margin to be included pass true to outerHeight method
This problem was not solved.. it was just evaded.. so dont use this as reference
what i have is
<div>
<img onclick='this.style.display="none";this.parentNode.getElementsByTagName("div")[0].style.display="block";this.parentNode.getElementsByTagName("div")[0].style.width=this.offsetWidth+"px";this.parentNode.getElementsByTagName("div")[0].style.height=this.height+"px";' src='http://static.***.pl/cache/***.pl/math/cafc682a15c9c6f1b7bb41eb004d6c45935cbf06434221f7201665f85242cb94.png'/>
<div onclick='this.style.display="none";this.parentNode.getElementsByTagName("img")[0].style.display="inline";' style='display:none'>
<pre style='width:100%;height:100%;'>
\lim_{t\to\infty}\int\limits_1^{t} \frac{1}{x^2}\,dx=\lim_{t\to\infty}\left(-\frac{1}{x}\right)\bigg|_1^t=\lim_{t\to\infty}\left(-\frac{1}{t}-\left(-\frac{1}{1}\right)\right)=\kappa=1880154404
</pre>
</div>
</div>
yes i know its ugly but well..
my problem is when i click the image it does what i want but if i then click the div it only works if i click on the text and i want it to work for the full div !
i dont want to use document.getElementById etc...
there will be multiple instances of this code and it will be in unknown places.
i really dont want to write up bloated code to do this (this includes jQuery,flash,.NET, Zend Engine etc etc...)
my question is simple :
why the hell does it work only if i click on text and how to fire onclick for the whole div
In your original Javascript action, you were setting the width and height of your div to zero, which means that there is no area to click on.
Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/ndKqM/
which should demonstrate the fix. I added some background color and padding to show the dimensions of the various boxes.
I removed the parts of the JS that calculated width and height and that fixed the issue.
If you click on the lime green area that holds your text, the action works.
Unless there is some other reason, you don't need to adjust width or height.
It's hard to tell what behavior you really want.
You are setting the image to display:none, and then you set the style.height and style.width of the sibling div to image.height and image.width. So - those will both be zero (as display:none is set for the image).
Do yourself a favor and set background colors or borders for your divs so you can see what's going on as you code.
Use an A tag with your onclick event and a null URL href="javascript://" instead of a DIV
I have a <h3> tag with limited height (100 px for example, position: absolute) and the text overflows it.
What I would like to do is slide it down over to the height that is needed when the mouse is over it and back to original height (100px).
I hope you understood what I mean
I don't think it uses slidedown() function for that and I am very weak in animate function. Any help please?
You can nest a div inside the h3 that contains the content and then use the h3 as a masking container (use overflow:hidden). When the user mouses over, fire a function that get's the height of the interior div (make sure to include any margins or padding). Then execute you height adjust animate function (In jquery, something like $('h3').animate({height: heightVar}); )The mouseout fires a function that restores the height of the h3 back to 100px.
Here's a sample: http://jsfiddle.net/XR9fb/
You can get the real height of the element with the scrollHeight property. Now, I don't really know much of jQuery, but I imagine you could just call animate to set the height CSS property to the scrollHeight of the element when the mouse hovers it, and return to the original height when the mouse moves out of it.
If the height of the element isn't fixed, you can salve the current height somewhere before displaying the full element, and when the mouse leaves the element you just restores this state.