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Absolute DIV height 100%

I have been working on this for the past couple of hours, and searching the web and stackoverflow hasn't been much support. How do I make #gradient and #holes fill the entire page? I have used the Inspect Element feature in Safari, and when I highlight the body element it does not fill the entire window. HTML: <body> <div id="gra...

Minimum height on vertically expandable div

Hey, Is there a way to set a minimum height for a div, but still allow it to be expandable? For example, I want a div to have an exact height of 300px when my page loads. However, if more content is added to the div with javascript, I want it to expand after that. If I specify a height and the content expands past the div, it either ...

BlackBerry - What does getPreferredWidth() and getPreferredHeight() return??

Hi all, I am not getting clear about the concept of getPreferredWidth() and getPreferredHeight() methods. What do they return means on what what basis the values are returned.?? What is difference between getWidth() and getPreferredWidth()??? Thank you.. ...

Width and height not changing when setting img src property

Using Javascript to change an 's src... First time the width and height properties are being set correctly. The Second time they don't change. Why? So I've got this blank image on my page... <img id="imgCropImage" /> So the idea is that every time a user uploads an image, the uploader's UploadComplete callback will set this image's s...

IE6 float and height

Hi i have 2 divs that floats and IE6 fails on height (its not set from css). If i have letters as g,p,j its cut off the end of these letters. Here is the code <div class="left"> <!-- this div float left --> <span style="color:#666;">Legend : </span> <!-- Here the letter g is cut --> <a title="" class="button" href="#">Cho...

Windows Mobile 6.1: ComboBox height

Hello, Could anyone tell why does a ComboBox (having the same font settings as a TextBox) look smaller (i.e. does not have the same height) ? The same application looks perfect on Windows Mobile 5. Could this be coped somehow ? Thanks. ...

Firefox/Safari setting height as [specified height - padding - border] for input[type=button]

When I use the following CSS: input[type=button] { background-color: white; border: 1px solid black; font-size: 15px; height: 20px; padding: 7px; } with this HTML: <input type="button" value="Foo" /> I expect to see this, so the total height becomes 36px: 1px border 7px padding 20px content (with 15px text) 7px paddin...

Height of div 100%

Hello. I want to make a div 100% height, so basically the full screen. This, so that the background streches over the whole page. I don't want to add the background to the body, since i want it so that if i comment out the wrapper, the page is full width. (which works by the way) So basically my question is: how can i make the wrapper...

Gridview height issue

Hello all. This is a simple one but it is defeating me. Ok, I have a gridview, lovely stuff. I have attempted to set the height of the headers so that the height is maintained regaardless of the content of the gridview. However, if a data row requires a bit more height itself (to include the data), the height of the heading also incre...

Flex - How to change open DropDownList height

Using FB4, I want to change the height of an open spark DropDownList. By default, it shows up to 6 items before scrolling. My dropdownlist contains 7 items, so I want to change the height of the open dropdown list to fit all 7 items without scrolling. As a workaround, I've changed the font size of the items so that they are smaller and a...

winforms: datagridview: height (autosize) depending on number of rows

in one of my forms a datagridview displays data from a database (of course the number of data (so number of rows) can change). The database connection is in the form load event. I just cant figure out how the height of the whole datagridview is autosized, depending on the number of rows it displays. ...

Equal height divs - complicated with multiple backgrounds

Hi all, I'm trying to create a website and it's design is forcing me to use multiple backgrounds. I'm talking about a technique that looks like this <div id="left"> <div id="left_1"> <div id="left_2"> </div> </div> </div> #left{ width:235px; margin:0; padding:0; float:left; bac...

Why is the height of DIVs containing images inflated by 4.5px?

This div will have a computed height of 104.5px (in most recent Chrome, FF, and IE) <div><img src="" height="100px" /></div> This div will have a computed height of 100px <div style="overflow:auto;"><img src="" height="100px" style="float:left;" /></div> I used FireBug to look at the DIVs and IMGs, and both IMGs have 0 for margin, ...

Cross-browser method for getting width and height of a DIV?

This is my first post, so please go easy on me. I'm sure I'm doing everything wrong. However, I couldn't find any posts that answered the question above. I use jQuery. I'm trying to find a way to get the current width and height of a DIV element, even if they're set to "auto". I've found many ways to do this, but no method returns the s...

How to set height property for SPAN

Hello guys. I need to make following code stretchable with predefined height <style> .title{ background: url(bg.gif) no-repeat bottom right; height: 25px; } </style> <span class="title">This is title</span> But since span is inline element, "height" property won't work. I tried using div instead, but it will expand up to th...

height:100%; float:left, is there a way?

Hi, I'm having a hard time finding the resources to solve my particular dilemma. I'd like to make a simple horizontal type scroll bar site. This site would contain nothing but images stacked up side by side and each image would have a 100% browser screen height. No text, menu buttons, etc. Here is my code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3...

iPhone Horizontal NavBar Height ?

Can someone tell me the pixel height of the iPhone navBar, when you turn the phone Horizontal? I know this is a basic question but I cannot locate the answer. Thank You. ...

Making DIV height at least as tall as the page in CSS

Hi, I have a DIV that I want to touch the bottom of the screen (for appearance reasons). Sometimes the content is enough tall to do that, but sometimes the content is too short and the DIV won't touch the bottom of the screen. Is there a simple workaround? ...

JQuery slide animation reveal div height issue

Hi, I have added a JQuery slide reveal effect to a page which partially shows the main content div (with text, flash and or images) for a couple of seconds then it animates to reveal the full content div. The scripted animation is added to the ".slide" class div on the page which can have various amount of height based on how much text ...

Find the longest element (jQuery)

I use this script to equalize heights of elements: (function ($) { $.fn.autoheight = function () { var height = 0, reset = $.browser.msie ? "1%" : "auto"; return this.css("height", reset).each(function () { height = Math.max(height, this.offsetHeight); }).css("height", height).each(fun...