On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 Peter Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have a scrolling field on screen which can take arbitrary HTML
> text. I'm printing this out across several pages by calculating the
> formattedHeight vs the available page height.
>
> Whilst this works well, I can end up with half a line appearing at
> the bottom of one page and the other half on the top of the next
> page. Ideally, I'd like to know exactly how many full lines of text
> can be accommodated in a given vertical space, then I could chop up
> the field text into page-sized chunks. However, since HTML text
> often includes text of varying height, I can't use the simple metrics
> available to do this calculation.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to calculate an accurate
> field height for such a situation?
Use the field pageHeights property. It gives you exactly this information.
Regards,
Scott
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