ahh brilliant!
I will modify my markup and return to using default scripty code...
The margins between the objects should really be taken into account though!
Gareth
On 6/21/07, azaozz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I played a bit more with it and Gareth, you're right. The extra pixels
> come from any margins between the Sortables. If you remove any
> distances between them, all works good, with or without the (child ==
> null) patch. I wish this info was somewhere in the documentation: When
> creating many small size Sortables in a Droppable row or column, make
> sure there isn't any margins between them, or the last few may jump
> around when trying to arrange them.
>
> So the "- (children.length * 2)" worked for me because there were 2px
> margins between them, but the proper way is to stack them without any
> distance and then use another element inside to make them "look nice".
>
> On Jun 20, 7:03 pm, azaozz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Gareth, I'm still unclear where this error in calculating the offset
> > comes from. In theory, the code is fine. It just calculates where
> > you're dropping. In practice when using small size Droppables, there
> > is an error of about 2px per Droppable, so by adding "-
> > (children.length * 2)", this error is corrected ("children.length" is
> > the number of children already in the container).
> >
> > On Jun 20, 6:16 pm, "Gareth Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > How interesting.
> > > I must have read that code a dozen times or more, trying to understand
> how
> > > it works...
> >
> > > Why does the *2 work?
> > > And why does subtracting double the children work- maybe its something
> to do
> > > with padding?
> >
> > > Gareth
> >
>
>
> >
>
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