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Particles js not displaying properly until the resize event is triggered

As stated above, I am using the particles.js library to add a background to a div on a site that I am designing.
When the page loads, the correct div has the animation as a background, but it always starts way too "zoomed in". It appears to be using too large a default screen size, however whenever the screen area is changed either by directly changing the window size or opening the developer console it triggers the "resize" event and then everything is displayed correctly.
The resize event code is as follows:
if(pJS && pJS.interactivity.events.resize){
window.addEventListener('resize', function(){
pJS.canvas.w = pJS.canvas.el.offsetWidth;
pJS.canvas.h = pJS.canvas.el.offsetHeight;
/* resize canvas */
if(pJS.tmp.retina){
pJS.canvas.w *= pJS.canvas.pxratio;
pJS.canvas.h *= pJS.canvas.pxratio;
}
pJS.canvas.el.width = pJS.canvas.w;
pJS.canvas.el.height = pJS.canvas.h;
/* repaint canvas on anim disabled */
if(!pJS.particles.move.enable){
pJS.fn.particlesEmpty();
pJS.fn.particlesCreate();
pJS.fn.particlesDraw();
pJS.fn.vendors.densityAutoParticles();
}
/* density particles enabled */
pJS.fn.vendors.densityAutoParticles();
});
}
What I am looking for is either a way to get the animation to load properly, or to trigger the resize immediately upon page load so that it always looks right to page visitors.
What I have tried
I have tried manually setting the size of the canvas element that the library creates, however that does not work. I have also tried changing the size of the div that contains the element, and that also does not work.
Potential conflicts or easier solutions
I am using Jquery 3.1.1 and Bootstrap 3

To trigger the resize you do:
$(window).trigger('resize');
when the dom is loaded

How do I create a div the size of the page?

Note that I'm not asking how to make a div the size of the "window" or "viewport" for which there are plenty of existing questions.
I have a web page of some height and width, and I'd like to add an empty, top-level div (i.e., not one containing the rest of the page) with a size exactly equal to the page's height and width. In practice, I also want it to be at least the size of the viewport.
I know I can do a one-time calculation of the height and width in JavaScript:
var height = Math.max(document.body.scrollHeight,
document.documentElement.clientHeight);
var width = Math.max(document.body.scrollWidth,
document.documentElement.clientWidth);
But this value can change based on images loading, or AJAX, or whatever other dynamic stuff is going on in the page. I'd like some way of locking the size of the div at the full page size so it resizes dynamically and on-demand.
I have tried something like the following:
function resetFakeBg() {
// Need to reset the fake background to notice if the page shrank.
fakeBg.style.height = 0;
fakeBg.style.width = 0;
// Get the full page size.
var pageHeight = Math.max(document.body.scrollHeight,
document.documentElement.clientHeight);
var pageWidth = Math.max(document.body.scrollWidth,
document.documentElement.clientWidth);
// Reset the fake background to the full page size.
fakeBg.style.height = pageHeight + 'px';
fakeBg.style.width = pageWidth + 'px';
}
// Create the fake background element.
fakeBg = setFakeBgStyle(document.createElement('div'));
document.body.appendChild(fakeBg);
// Keep resizing the fake background every second.
size_checker_interval = setInterval(resetFakeBg, 1000);
Limitations
This is for a Chrome extension, and I'd like to limit my modification of the page to adding this single div. This means that adding CSS to modify the height and width of the html and/or body tags is undesirable because it might have side-effects on the way the rest of the page is rendered.
In addition, I do not want to wrap the existing page in the div because that has the potential to break some websites. Imagine, for example, a site styled with the CSS selector body > div. I'd like my extension to break as few websites as possible.
WHY OH WHY WOULD I NEED TO DO THIS?
Because some people like to hold their answers hostage until they're satisfied that I have a Really Good Reason™ for wanting to do this:
This is for an accessibility-focused Chrome extension that applies a CSS filter across an entire page. Recent versions of Chrome (>= 45) do not apply CSS filters to backgrounds specified on the <html> or <body> tag. As a result, I have chosen to work around this limitation by copying the page's background onto a div with a very negative z-index value, so that it can be affected by the page-wide CSS filter. For this strategy to work, the div needs to exactly imitate the way the page background would appear to a user—by being the exact size of the document (and no larger) and at least filling the viewport.

setInterval() is your best friend in cases like this where you want the .height() and .width() of an element to be asynchronously specified all the time to something that can be dynamicly altered by user input and DOM tree changes. It is what I dub as a "page sniffer", and arguably, works better than $(document).ready if you are working in multiple languages (PHP, XML, JavaScript).
Working Example

You should get away with setting the width and height in the window resize function, you might wanna add it in a load function as well, when all data/images are loaded.

just add width=100%
e.g;-
Hello World

I think you must do it like this:
...
<body>
<script>
function height()
{var height = Math.max(document.body.scrollHeight,
document.documentElement.clientHeight);}
function width()
{var width = Math.max(document.body.scrollWidth,
document.documentElement.clientWidth);}
</script>
<div height="height()" width="width()">
</div>
</body>
...

How to run vbscript code at certain browser width

I'm turning a clients website into a responsive site and they have lots of vbscript in the content of their home page. At mobile widths they've stripped out a lot of content which means there's lots of code that's being executed but not displayed thanks to display:none
Is there a way to run vbscript code when you hit a minimum width of 768px?
I thought about using javascript to get the screen width and store it as a cookie and use vbscript to get the cookie to obtain the screen width:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
var width = screen.width;
document.cookie = 'YourDomain=ScreenWidthB='+width;
</SCRIPT>
<%Dim ScreenWidth%>
<%ScreenWidth=request.cookies("YourDomain")("ScreenWidthB")%>
but I feel there may be a better solution out there. Also the code above gives me the width of my monitor I believe, not the width of the browser

This isn't something you would do with any server side language.
You can either use Bootstrap Grid System for this, which has a built-in grid system to handle responsive sizing.
or you can simply use CSS to define your styles for elements with-in a certain viewport size, using the CSS #media tag:
Your CSS would look like this example:
div {width:100px;}
#media (min-width:768px) {
div { width: 50px; }
}
What this does is makes all div's at 100px width, but when the browser is 768px or larger it changes the div sizing to 50px, as defined with-in the #media tag.
Therefore, you can use VBScript to generate the CSS script in the page, without having to write any javascript code. But Bootstrap may be your best bet to help build a responsive design easily/seamlessly. You may want to check it out.
EDIT: Since OP has clarified not to even load the content
You can make a cookie in javascript, and read it in your VBScript to check the viewport.
You can use jQuery for this:
$(window).resize(function(e){
var w = $(this).width();
if(w>768) document.cookie = "viewport=768;";
else document.cookie = "viewport=;";
});
This will bind an event listener on any time the user resizes the window, to check it's size, and if above 768px, it will write the cookie or empty if not.
Then check for the viewport cookie using Request.Cookies("viewport")
Or better yet since you're concerned about performance, you can use Ajax to build your page when a certain viewport size is hit.
Again, you can use jQuery for this and bind to the window resize event.
contentloaded = false;
$(window).resize(function(e){
var w = $(this).width();
if(w>768 && !contentloaded) {
$.get(url,function(data){
$("div").html(data);
contentloaded = true;
});
}
});
I would use ajax to do this, since I'd want to show the content without the user having to refresh the screen as you would have to by using the cookie solution.

Get Default Height Of Element On Webpage after css height has been applied)

How do I go about getting what the height of an element on a page would be if it ignored the 'height' css property applied to it?
The site I'm working on is http://www.wncba.co.uk/results and the actual script I've got so far is:
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
document.origContentHeight = $("#auto-resize").outerHeight(true);
refreshContentSize(); //run initially
$(window).resize(function() { //run whenever window size changes
refreshContentSize();
});
});
function refreshContentSize()
{
var startPos = $("#auto-resize").position();
var topHeight = startPos.top;
var footerHeight = $("#footer").outerHeight(true);
var viewportHeight = $(window).height();
var spaceForContent = viewportHeight - footerHeight - topHeight;
if (spaceForContent <= document.origContentHeight)
{
var newHeight = document.origContentHeight;
}
else
{
var newHeight = spaceForContent;
}
$("#auto-resize").css('height', newHeight);
return;
}
[ http://www.wncba.co.uk/results/javascript/fill-page.js ]
What I'm trying to do is get the main page content to stretch to fill the window so that the green lines always flow all the way down the page and the 'Valid HTML5' and 'Designed By' messages are never above the bottom of the window. I don't want the footer to stick to the bottom. I just want it to stay there instead of moving up the page if there's not enough content to fill above to fill it. It also must adapt itself accordingly if the browser window size changes.
The script I've got so far works but there's a small issue that I want to fix with it. At the moment if the content on the page changes dynamically (resulting in the page becoming longer or shorter) the script won't detect this. The variable document.origContentHeight will remain set as the old height.
Is there a way of detecting the height of an element (e.g. #auto-resize in the example) and whether or not it has changed ignoring the height that has been set for it in css? I would then use this to update the variable document.origContentHeight and re-run the script.
Thanks.

I don't think there is a way to detect when an element size changed except using a plugin,
$(element).resize(function() //only works when element = window
but why don't you call refreshContentSize function on page changes dynamically?
Look at this jsFiddle DEMO, you will understand what I mean.
Or you can use Jquery-resize-plugin.

I've got it working. I had to rethink it a bit. The solution is on the live site.
The one think I'd like to change if possible is the
setInterval('refreshContentSize()', 500); // in case content size changes
Is there a way of detecting that the table row has changed size without chacking every 500ms. I tried (#content).resize(function() but couldn't to get it to work.

How can I size a .swf to full screen with .js

My application is built in Flash Builder. I want to embed a small Flash login form inside an HTML page. The login form is in the 'login' state of code and is a few hundred pizxels wide/ tall. The 'default' state is set to height and width of 100%. I have a resize function that is executed once the login receives the appropriate credentials.
private function resizeApplication():void {
if(ExternalInterface.available) {
ExternalInterface.call("resizeApplication");
}
The javascript that does the resizing is this:
function resizeApplication() {
var app = document.getElementById('app');
app.style.height = '100%';
app.style.width = '100%';
app.style.left = '0';
app.style.top = '0';}
#app is the div and overflow is set to auto in the body. This works just fine except that I am left with some visable portion of the webpage near the bottom. I want to be able to either resize the webpage to match the swf or hide everything except the swf. I have tried a few different things with the js including setting the bottom attribute to 0 and using variations of the document.body.clientHeight.

You can't make it "Full Screen" but you can make it fill the browser.
First the app element should have the position style pre-set to either fixed or absolute(depending on your page) since setting it from the script will reload the flash object.
And then use this one if the position is fixed:
app.style.top = '0';
app.style.left = '0px';
app.style.top = '0px';
app.style.right = '0px';
app.style.bottom = '0px';
And this for absolute find out the position of the viewport and it's size and just move and resize your app element.
http://www.softcomplex.com/docs/get_window_size_and_scrollbar_position.html
Either way wouldn't it be a lot easier for you if you just made the flash fullscreen from ActipnScript?
fscommand("fullscreen", "true"); // ActionScript 2
stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN; // ActionScript 3

You have to set the height of the div manually to consistently get the effect you are looking for. This is the same trick used to make a background image always fill the screen.
Something like this:
function resizeMain(){
$("#wrapper").height(window.innerHeight);
$("#background").height(window.innerHeight);
$("#background").width(window.innerWidth);
}
window.onresize = resizeMain;
$(document).ready(function(){resizeMain();});

Why not simply enter real full screen mode using
StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN