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javascript clientHeight (IE6) question

#1 nixx

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Posted 09 August 2009 - 10:55 PM

Hi,

is there a way to set the document.documentElement.clientHeight property in IE6?

it works fine in firefox (window.innerHeight). I can get the clientHeight in IE6 but everytime i try to set it, it throws an error.

help please

thanks!

by the way, here's the js:

function windowHeight()
{
	var h = document.getElementById('contents').offsetHeight;

	//firefox
	if (typeof (window.innerHeight) == 'number')
	{
		window.innerHeight = h + 24;
	}
	
	//ie
	else
	{
		if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeight)
		{
			document.documentElement.clientHeight = h + 24;
		}
		else
		{
			if (document.body && document.body.clientHeight)
			{
				document.body.clientHeight = h + 24;
			}
		}
	}
}

#2 KamakaZ

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 01:15 AM

what exactly is it that you are trying to do here? why do you need to set the window size?

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#3 nixx

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 08:27 PM

it's a popup window. the content of the pop up varies. it looks weird with all the whitespace below if the content doesnt fill the whole window

#4 KamakaZ

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 08:43 PM

I haven't had much to do with javascript as i mainly use freely avaliable stuff and mod it, i think this is similar to what you are trying to do?

http://jquery.com/demo/thickbox/ (scroll to bottom to see examples)

http://orangoo.com/labs/GreyBox/

Then again i could be wrong...

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#5 nixx

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 08:52 PM

although i would love to use that, i cant because i'm opening it in a new popup window, not a pseudo popup :thumbsup:

#6 groovicus

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 08:53 PM

Quote

it throws an error

Instead of having us guess, don't you suppose it might be helpful if you included the error message?

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#7 nixx

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 08:59 PM

"object doesn't support this property or method"

firefox doesn't have this error. just ie6. haven't tested it on newer versions of ie.

does that mean, i can get the height of the window but not set it?

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#8 groovicus

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 09:37 PM

Just off the cuff, it would seem to indicate that IE6 does not support that method. Is there a reason that you absolutely have to support IE6 (me cringes)?

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#9 nixx

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 10:03 PM

i hate to say it but, REQUIREMENTS haha

oh well. to think this is for an IT company.

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 10:11 PM

Believe me, I understand. There are many corporate entities that will not allow an upgrade of IE, although I could never fathom what they though they would gain by running an 8 year old browser.

If I am guessing cororectly, you have some content of some variable size, that needs to be displayed in a pop-up? What happens if you don't set the size at all?

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#11 nixx

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Posted 10 August 2009 - 10:22 PM

i couldn't understand it too.

anyway, yeah, the content of the window is varying. i tried removing the dialogHeight, it displayed the popup in a small window. so basically there are scrollbars to view the content