> > 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.
Thanks Scott and Kevin, you both gave the same suggestion and it
works perfectly!
Cheers
Peter
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