I could give that a try, thanks, but I really need something that will work
in most browsers - what makes this IE only ? body.clientHeight ?
I have found a method which does work but I'm using
document.body.offsetHeight - is this IE only too ?
"Jon Spivey" <jo**@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uH**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
How about this - IE only
<style type="text/css">
#test{
position:absolute;
top:100px;
left:100px;
border:1px solid black;
width:100px;
height:expression(body.clientHeight-100 + "px");
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="test">
text
</div>
A lazy answer but might be good enough :-)
Cheers,
Jon
"JezB" <je***********@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uf**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... You wouldn't like to tell me how would you ? Cannot get it to work ... I
know next to nothing about javascript so I'm probably doing something
stupid.
"bruce barker" <no***********@safeco.com> wrote in message
news:el**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... you need to write javascript that does the resize. catch the onresize event, and calc the new height for the div. see the html dom documentation
for properties.
-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
"JezB" <je***********@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:O6*************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I have a DIV which I want to automatically resize when the user resizes the
> browser.
>
> The width setting is easy - I want it to appear on the left hand
side of the
> page and take up 50% of the screen so I set width:50%.
>
> The height is more tricky since I want to size it from it's rendered
> Y-position (which is not 0) down to the bottom of the browser. Hence if the
> user resizes downwards the DIV should expand itself to fit the
height > available. Since its Y position is not 0, setting height:100% will
not work.
> So I really need something like height:-30px assuming my div starts
at > Y-co-ordinate 30 - but I'm not using absolute positioning so this
may vary!
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
>
