You may do that with css. Suppose you have a div with some text content,
then give it a class as noScorll and define it as -
.noScroll{
overflow:hide;
}
Details here - http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_overflow.asp
<http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_overflow.asp>
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:14 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rather than displaying a fixed number of lines of text (e.g. 30), I'd
> like to dynamically fill the browser window with as many
> lines as it will display without scrolling.
>
>
> On Jun 1, 6:53 pm, Walter Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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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