[Javascript] iframe size (may be an HTML issue)

[Chris Basken]

I suppose it isn't.  It dawned on me I could use a DIV, but I don't want to
muck around with absolute positioning...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Brunone" <peter at brunone.com>
To: "'[JavaScript List]'" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 4:04 PM
Subject: RE: [Javascript] iframe size (may be an HTML issue)


>
> Wow... how tall is a three-gallon bag of water?
>
> If you know the width, maybe you can get the body as a string
> and count the number of characters... But that isn't really a reliable
> number since resolutions, font sizes, and invisible text may be a factor
> (although I suppose you could mitigate the last one by counting the
> .innerText characters of every element in the doc).  Why is it necessary
> to avoid scrolling?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu On Behalf Of Chris Basken
>
> Silly question time.
>
> If I'm pulling another HTML doc into an iframe, is it possible to set
> the iframe's height to fit the content of the HTML doc?  This is a
> template page that uses JS to define the src of the iframe depending on
> another parameter, but different src docs have different lengths and I'd
> like to avoid scrolling.
>
> I know I can use:
>
>     document.all['myIframe'].style.height = x;
>
> So I need to determine x from the content of the HTML doc that's being
> pulled in, but that would depend on how it flowed, so I can't really
> know that ahead of time (each such doc has a master table, so I can
> match widths, but how do I determine the height?).
>
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