[thelist] Setting parent layer height to max. child layer height
Peter-Paul Koch
gassinaumasis at hotmail.com
Thu Aug 16 17:27:57 CDT 2001
>Do any of you DHTML gurus out there know how to set the height of a parent
>layer to that of a child layer? For example, I have a parent layer
>relatively positioned within a table cell. Within that parent layer are
>several child layers of varying height, absolutely positioned one on top of
>the other, with the height the layers not set (i.e., is based upon the
>amount of text in the layer). Since parent layers don't inherit attributes
>from child layers, I've got problems with text spilling outside of the
>table cell when the amount of text in a child layer is more than a certain
>amount.
Hmmmm...interesting problem. I think you have to use JavaScript
>Is there a cross-browser way to make the parent layer's height increase to
>that of the tallest child layer?
You'd have to go through the child layers, take their offsetHeight and
change the parent height to the largest offsetHeight you've found plus a bit
more. This doesn't work in NN4, of course.
p[pk
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