Dynamic text

djumaka

Hi there!

I have a task that I did not manage to cover in a normal way: I have a text from a database , which is placed into a layer in the page, which layer is dynamically scrolled via JS. The question is: is there a way that I get the size of the layer from the text.

I know this is not entirely a PHP question, but I cannot slove this shitty problem.

Anyhelp or code will be appreciated.

TIA.

Djumaka

ShawnK

What do you mean 'layer' of the page?

The easiest way to put the text into the script is to not use an external JS file include it all in a php file then just use a variable.

dnast

edit: I didn't read correctly :p

djumaka

the situation is :

i have some <div>Text</div> which I call layer.

I have the task to get the sizes of this layer, since I don't know the amount and layout of the text inside.

TIA

The_Chancer

If you know the size of the text in px, and also the padding of the div in px, as well as the width, then you could be able to make an educated guestimate as to the number of lines the text would span...

Then add them up.

A possibility ??

vaaaska

Well, it's certainly not a php question because even if you could get the size of the layer it would do no good to php as javascript is client-side (it would be too late as the page would have loaded things up).

However, I believe you want to read the height of something like an iframe or a div ID...right?

This probably wouldn't work, but I have it laying around from something I've done before - it might be a place for you to start and give you some clues what you should search on a javascript forum...

function setSizePrev() {
// Safari and Firefox
if (self.outerHeight) 
{ document.getElementById('divIDname').style.height=self.outerHeight; }
// ???
else if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeight)
{ document.getElementById('divIDname').style.height=document.documentElement.clientHeight; }
// Microsoft
else if (document.body)
{ document.getElementById('divIDname').style.height=document.body.clientHeight; }
}

Oh yeah, be sure to have an onLoad in your body tag.

Good luck...v

freebie

I do stuff like this quite frequently.
The way I do it is to use a <DIV> that contains an <iframe> The iframe src is set to some PHP file that gets the text (for instance like a "more info" popup where a reference to a row, referring to either as an ID value or some reference column, in the MoreInfo database table is passed in as a query string paramter of the iframe src attribute). The iframe will have it's own scrollbar, so just set the div to a certain width and height and all will be good.
Typically, I add a table within the div, and one of the table cells contains the DIV. This way, the table can have a table header row that has a CLOSE link as well as allows the window to be draggable (using a drag script)