On Jun 1, 2011, at 8:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:

If I'm displaying lines of text (e.g. list of records from a
database), how can I determine how many lines will fit in the browser
window?

Does javascript have the equivalent of SIGWINCH?

Generally speaking, no. Web pages tend to grow to whatever height their content requires, and even if you could get the current window height from the browser, you would still need to send that information back to the browser (maybe through an Ajax request) even then, you still wouldn't know about the browser's font settings or other user preferences that could influence how many lines of text would fit in the current window size. Never mind what happens when the visitor resizes her window.

What's your goal here? Are you trying to enforce a "no scroll bars" aesthetic or something?

Walter


Thanks,

Joe

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