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Calculate rectangle width and height from diagonal and rotation

Hello, I have a rotate rectangle and I know the size of the diagonal. I also know the angle used to rotate the rectangle. How can I calculate the width and height of the rectangle? For a sketch of the problem, see: ...

3 Column CSS Equal Height jQuery solution

Hey, I was working on a solution to my equal height three columns CSS equal height layout with jQuery, because the CSS workarounds were really giving me some trouble. I came up with the following code: $('.columns').css("height", "$('#detail').height()"); But for some reason, I don't see any effect when I reload my web page. I even ...

Firefox element height issue

I am creating a table dynamically based on the number of rows returned from the server using struts. The table is created properly and I am trying to get the height value on the created table using any of the following: document.getElementById('elementId').offsetHeight jQuery("#elementId").css('height') jQuery("#elementId").height() I...

How would I find the height of the task bar?

In my windows application, I am trying to find the height of the task bar. While I can hard program this into my program, I would like to find it programmatically to support past, present (win7) and future windows versions. So, how would I do this? ...

How do I get the thumb of an Android SeekBar to match the height of the SeekBar?

Do I need to implement a custom thumb Drawable? ...

resize UITableView cell based on the given text

I have a UITableView A, in which there is a cell (in a standalone section) that, once selected, another UITableView B will be brought up where user can input/edit text content. After done with UITableView B, the text content will be used to update the cell's content in UITableView A. The cell section in UITableView A was coded to allow ...

100% div height headaches...

I am trying to get a set of 4 div column's (class siteCol) height to fill 100% of its container (id sites). the reason being, one column can have longer text than the others, but they should all be as tall as the tallest column. I have tried everything. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Code below: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DT...

LaTeX: How to wrap a sideways text in a column (tabular)

Let's say we have a table \begin{tabular}{|c|c|} \begin{sideways}A\end{sideways}&\begin{sideways}B\end{sideways}\\ a & b \\ \end{tabular} How can I define the height of cells A and B, so that in case of A and B being a longer caption, the text will wrap-around the cell? Putting p{x pt} in the tabular environment's table specs doesn't...

wpf app - why is the window size larger than I set it to?

Hi, Any ideas re why the WPF application I've starting building has a larger width and height than what I set in VS2010? That is, in VS2010 I set the height of the window to be AUTO (so it should be just high enough to contain the controls) and this seems to work visually within VS2010. But when I then run the application the window h...

jQuery returns null for element height? why?

hey guys, $(document).ready(function(){ function getDocumentHeight() { // What's the page height? var height = $('#mainbody').height(); alert(height); ... getDocumentHeight(); jQuery keeps alerting "null" for the height of my #mainbody div. i don't get why, it should at least be 500px or so. thank you. ...

A List in alphabetical order going down not across?

I have a giant list that comes out of my database in alphabetical order. It is placed in a Div with a set width. I have each floated left and the are all next to each going from left to right and its great. BUT my client wants the order to go down not across. So it is like this: apple angry antler bone beard broken She wants: ap...

Sliding Div to auto height

Hello! I have a div that I slide in and out. To do this I just increase the height by 2px every second until a preset height from a height of 0. Is there anyway to determine the content height of the div as the content is unpredictible height considering the starting properties of the div are display:none and height:0? Thank you. ...

How to prevent a ListView from expanding the window dimension?

Hi, I put a ListView in the middle row of a View. The view is contained in a window that has SizeToContent set to WidthAndHeight. The ListView is initially empty, but the underlying ViewModel fills this list view in the process. The middle Grid.Row height is set to * to fill the available size of the window. When the ListView receives ...

Finding number of lines in an html textarea

I'm writing a mobile web application where scrollbars are not displayed on the device's browser. Due to this, I'm trying to dynamically modify the height of the textarea to make it bigger, however I don't know of any way to actually get the line count on an html textarea. Any help would be greatly appreciated! EDIT So I realize now t...

Image Skimming with php & gd;

I have seen tons of examples of Cropping images with php & the gd lib however I have never seen any posts on Skimming or Shaving an image. What I mean by this is say you have pictures from a digital camera that places the date on picture. It is always in a constant place on the picture. So how would I do this? All examples I have come ac...

Getting a relative positioned DIV to take up the remainder of it's parent's vertical space

I'm working on a web application that has a couple widgets positioned all the way on the right using a container DIV with absolute positioning. The first (top) widget is small but with a dynamic/undefined height. The second (bottom) widget contains scrollable content and must stretch to fill the remaining space of its parent DIV. I'm ...

why does the containing div not recognize the height of the items within?

how can my containing div (boxes_blue) recognize the height of the items within? #boxes_blue { display: block; margin: 0 0 0 175px; border: 1px solid brown; clear: both; } #boxes_blue_each { float: right; height: 100px; width: 100px; padding: 10px; border-left: 3px solid #fff; background-color: #004964; color: #fffacf; text-transfor...

let background div stretch all the way down to the bottom off the page

Hello people, Is there a css trick to let a div stretch down to the bottom of the screen without visible content in it. Or do I have to resort to javascript? Thanks, Richard ...

How to check if a text field has wrapped and the number of lines it has wrapped to.

Hi all... I have a complex vertical nav which includes transparent PNG's in my design. I need to make these menus grow dynamically in height because the content is pulled from a CMS and some buttons can grow in height depending on how many lines the text field wraps to. Here is my scernario: <ul> <li> <a> <span> ...

Silverlight ListBox Height Automatically increase

Hi all, I am using silvelight listbox control,and i stucked.Every listbox item contains another listbox item now when i bind my data second listbox control,it appears horizontal scrollbar and this is not a problem i can remove it.How can do when I add new Item to second listbox,its height automatically increase? For a second listbox Hei...