Ron,

I've put back the original layout. Has that helped?

David

Ron Van den Branden wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I really love timeline and would like to use it for a project involving 
> the visual display of a kind of log book. On average, this involves some 
> 24 events per day, but there are 21 days on which more than 50 events 
> happened, with an upper limit of 336 events on a single day... As my 
> timeline involves several bands, I'd rather not try and err to find the 
> optimal height of the timeline div in different browsers, since the 
> sheer height of this massive band would render it next to useless from a 
> user point of view.
>
> So far, I've been trying to implement vertical scrollbars to deal with 
> overflowing content. Creating an intermediate div level between the div 
> with class "timeline-default timeline-container" and the one with class 
> "timeline-band timeline-band-n" seems to promise useful results, if I 
> can figure out how to transpose the latter's top and height 
> characteristics to the new, containing div (suggestion where to look, 
> anyone?). For this intermediate div, overflow settings can then handle 
> the vertical overflow of 'long' days.
>
> However, I noticed another problem. With the recent (08/14/2007) commit 
> in the code introducing the lay-out of events are against a "spine" in 
> the middle of the band, I noticed that some labels are cut off *above* 
> the band's visual space, without any means to scroll up to these labels. 
> Perhaps a screenshot can clarify the problem: 
> <http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd115/ronnyrubber/timeline.jpg>.
>
> What can I do to avoid the problem that event labels drop off the upper 
> limits of a band? Any comments in general on dealing with dense 
> timelines, or on my specific approach (I'd be much helped if I knew 
> where the generated divs get their @style characteristics) are much 
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ron Van den Branden
>
>
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