Ajax Div Maintain Height - javascript

Greetings,
I have a list of user comments on a page, with a next button which makes an Ajax call to get the second set of comments.
The problem is, the height of the comments div temporarily becomes very small while the loading bar is in place. This makes the user need to scroll back down to see the new comments
The issue can be seen at the bottom of this page by clicking "Next" comments.
Is there a way to force the div to maintain its height through Javascript? I do not want to hard code the div height in case a page has 3 or less comments.

before loading your ajax-content into the comments section set the height of the comments container like this (jQuery):
// #comments is just an example. It may not be the same as your comments section.
$("#comments").css("height",$("#comments").height);
then after loading your comments (the ajax complete/success callback) unset the height like this:
$("#comments").css("height","auto");

Add only height() (parenthesis)
here
$("#comments").css("height",$("#comments").height);

I know this is an older question but this worked for me.
var containerHeight = $("#comments").height();
$("#comments").css("height",containerHeight);
Then set it to "height auto" when you load in the content.
$("#comments").css("height","auto");

Related

Scroll a div's scroll bar all the way to the right with javascript

This question is a duplicate of jQuery scrollRight?
I have a div with a lot of content (width-wise) and overflow:auto, so i have the scroll bar at the bottom. It starts scrolled fully to the left: is there a way to scroll it all the way over to the right, using jQuery/native JS?
Even if there's a way to do this in CSS (which would normally be preferable) i need to do it in JS, because some other stuff happens in the table first in JS (using the jquery plugin DataTables to be specific) in the dom ready block, so my code needs to run after that.
I thought this would be simple but i've not managed to google anything useful.
thanks! max
Here's how I did it - you might consider it a bit hacky.
In the sample below, "#test" is a div with 100px width and overflow: auto.
$("#test").css("overflow","none");
$("#test").css("width","none");
var width = $("#test").width();
$("#test").css("overflow","auto");
$("#test").css("width","100px");
$("#test").animate({scrollLeft: width}, 100);
Here I'm getting rid of the width and overflow CSS properties to work out what the true width of the content is. Then I'm putting the CSS properties back on and scrolling to that width.
Here's a JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/dReFh/

Scrolling layout - like facebook or google plus right sidebar

Any idea how make a layout like google plus or facebook. You can see at google plus home as example,
at the beginning, if you scroll the page in the main content, they will scroll together (friend post and sidebar), but when you scroll until the bottom of sidebar (in the right of friend post), that sidebar will stop scrolling , but the another content (friend post) will still scrolling. can explain to me how to make layout like that? sample code or demo will be very help.
Fixed positioning with CSS is a very limited approach. There are a number of ways to do this style of "fixed" areas, many of which have already been given in answers to similar questions on here (try the search above?).
One technique (which many are based on) is like so (in brief)..
Capture the browser's scrolling
Get the position from top of chosen element (x)
Check if the scrolling > x, if so apply a class to the element to fix it to a certain position.
The same will work in reverse, for example:
var target = $('#div-to-stick');
var div_position = target.offset().top;
$(window).scroll(function() {
var y_position = $(window).scrollTop();
if(y_position > div_position) {
target.addClass('fixed');
}
else {
target.removeClass('fixed');
}
}
Note: Depending on how you chose to complete the code above, the page will often "jump" as the div's position is modified. This is not always a (noticeable) problem, but you can consider getting around this by using .before with target.height() and appending a "fake" replacement div with the same height.
Hope this helps.
The new approach with css3 is reduce your effort. use single property to get it.
position:sticky;
here is a article explained it and demo.
article
Demo
You are looking for CSS position:fixed (for the scroll-along sidebar), you can set the location with left:[length], right:[length], top:[length], bottom:[length] and the normal width and height combos
You will need to augment it with a window resize and scroll listener that applies the position:fixed property after the window has scrolled past the top of the sidebar.
Use css property (position:fixed). This will keep the position of the div fixed even if you scroll down or scroll up.

Issues with Fixed div on bottom of page that stops at given place

We needed a footer toolbar that stays at the bottom of the page, and sticks to some area when page is scrolled below that area.
We did achieved this using following script:
fixed div on bottom of page that stops in given place
But there is an issue on some page where the footer toolbar just disappears from the page, and then appear again when page is scrolled down further.
We found that this particular issue appears only on few page, when the page has some contents like Images, Video, or Ajax load other content where the content is filled in (or space is being filled) after page has loaded.
I have no clue how to fix this.
Here is the link from live site with problem page.
http://www.sandiegopchelp.com/services/cellphone-repair/htc/
http://www.sandiegopchelp.com/top-10-tips-to-help-secure-your-computer/
http://www.sandiegopchelp.com/notes-on-the-phablet-does-the-world-need-one/
It is usually more visible on blog posts with many comments. May be due to Disqus comments being loaded after the page has loaded completely.
How does this look?
http://jsfiddle.net/LukeGT/NxSc3/
$(window).scroll(function() {
$('#bar').css('position', 'static');
console.log($('#bar').position().top);
console.log($(window).scrollTop() + $(window).height());
if ($(window).scrollTop() + $(window).height() < $('#bar').position().top + $('#bar').height()) {
$('#bar').css('position', 'fixed');
}
});
setTimeout(function() {
$('#extra').show();
}, 1000);​
I simulated the late loading of images by just showing a few extra divs after 1 second. I believe the problem arises from the fact that the height of the page changes after the code for the bar runs, so it's behaving as it should if the page were shorter (without the images/ajax etc).
What I do instead is position the bar in it's place at the bottom of the page each time the page is scrolled, calculate its height from the top there, and compare this with the scroll height. If we're too far up, it positions the bar in a fixed position at the base of the page, and otherwise leaves it alone. It works smoothly in Chrome, but I haven't tested elsewhere.
I guess this is a problem with the $(window).height() function. Check here. For all the dynamic contents like Images, Video or Ajax-loaded content the height is not added to the result of $(window).height() unless it is specified somewhere in the HTML or CSS (and from the referred link I see this happens only in Chrome. You might want to confirm on this though). To those dynamic contents you can either try adding the height attribute in html or height attribute in the corresponding style.
This is not the answer but i have found something while inspecting your website...
This is you actual HTML when its working fine as you want..
<div class="footer-toolbar-container" id="sticky_for_a_while" style="position: fixed; ">
but when it is not working, the Position attribute is changing from Fixed to Relative .
<div class="footer-toolbar-container" id="sticky_for_a_while" style="position: relative; ">
you can check you script for that or post you script here...
At initial state, your div is in position: relative so its offset is based on the container element, not on the total height of the page. The variable stickyOffset is set based on that relative offset, that is why it gets clip down sooner than expected while scrolling and also why it works in your JSFiddle as the container there is the page (Iframe) itself.
In your $(document).ready function, you'll need to add the offset of not only the footer but also the rest of the offset on top of the containing element so that the offset is based on the total page instead of the containing div.
Hope that helps.
By looking at your example on http://www.sandiegopchelp.com/services/cellphone-repair/htc/ using chrome, I can see that your footer disappears when it gets at the "related links" section. At this moment, you set the position of the footer to "relative" so it will replace it in the regular flow of the document and its position is actually below the "related links" section which is why it disappears off screen (below "related links").
but you calculated the position at which it should become relative on page load only where you should have recalculated it after having added the "related links" section as it changes the page height (I understood that you added afterward, am I right?).
Try adding a zero height div just above the position of the sticky div, which will remain at that position as the page resizes, then check that position as you scroll to determine the position where the sticky div should stop.
Finally got it fixed by two techniques, setting explicit height wherever possible using CSS and delaying jQuery function after all images are loaded. Refer this: Delay some jQuery function until all images are loaded completely

Mootools: height of hidden elements

Morning all,
I'm trying to create a Mootools effect to show and hide replies to a comment on a discussion board. When the user clicks the "replies" link in the comment I want to increase the height of the comment container and then fade in the replies content. If the replies content is already visible, clicking on the link would reverse the effect.
I've got it sort of working, but I'm having trouble getting the correct height of my hidden elements (repliesH in my JS). I've tried getDimensions(), measure() and getComputedSize(), but they all give the same result: when elements are set to display:none I get a height that is too small; when I set them to display:block the height is correct. Can any kind person spot where I'm going wrong?
http://jsfiddle.net/andfinally/tVBCa/
Cheers
Fred
=======================
A BIT LATER
Just noticed - the width of the .comments-list container seems to have something to do with this problem. When I remove that width the effect works OK. This probably means that getDimensions gets the height of an element when it's not nested in anything. Can anyone suggest how I can work out what the height'll be when it is nested?
Cheers
Fred
you could use Fx.Reveal, it's very useful when u encounter these kind of problems, and it simplifies A LOT your code, i.e. (I've forked your example) => http://jsfiddle.net/steweb/DH27F/
A simple way to workaround it:
replies.show();
var repliesH = replies.getDimensions().y;
replies.hide();
Just show it, get dimensions and hides it again. This runs so fast that neither is visible to the user.
Your updated Fiddle here.

javascript overlay not covering full page when div expands the page height

I realize there's already been several questions like this, but I think my case is a little different.
I have an div that I am absolutely positioning and floating on top of the page, and I'm setting an overlay behind it to grey out the rest of the page. I have it working okay until you scroll up and down the page.
The problem is, when the div appears, it is still populating with ajax data. So the height and width of the bg overlay has already been set, but once all the data loads into the floating div, it sometimes pushing the page down so the height increases. So, I can't calculate the height and width of the window or document because the floating div might not be fully loaded yet, and once it does, it pushes the screen down further, causing the bg overlay to not cover the whole page.
So for example, in the code it's going something like:
loadBoxContent = function(){
..DO AJAX HERE..
..PUT CONTENT INTO FLOATING DIV..
$('#floatDiv').show()
$('#darkOverlay').height($(window).height());
}
I verified this by adding an alert, so that by the time I've clicked the alert, the bg overlay was able to calculate the true page size, and it looks fine.
Sorry, if this sounds confusing but hopefully you get what I'm trying to achieve. I'm assuming this isn't too difficult, but I haven't been able to figure it out.
Any help would be appreciated, I'm using jquery.
Thanks
Overlay ;)
** update, setting position of all corners to 0 instead of using width/height 100% **
$("<div/>")
.css({
position:"fixed", // ze trick
background:"#000",
opacity:.5,
top:0,
bottom: 0,
left:0,
right: 0,
zIndex: 2999 // everything you want on top, gets higher z-index
})
.appendTo("body");
Or put the above css settings in a css stylesheet (opacity needs cross browser hacks).
$("#dark-overlay").show();
Here is the solution :
JQuery Show Loading Plugin
Don't try to invent the wheel !!!
Here is a demo :
Loading Demo
Now you just need to create a main container div for your page and just ask this simple plugin to do it for you.
Maybe you want to read the plugin source and find how it works...

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