Has anyone thought about ways to calculate the height of pages on 
dynamically-generated sites? I'd like to offer a sidebar height that "tracks" the 
height of the results by adding additional sidebar sections as required

Some of our pages are long as they show 10 or 20 results from a database search. For 
example:

  http://www.bolide.co.uk/actions/directory.taf?_function=WOWlist

This page will always be long as there are (and always will be) more than enough 
results to fit the page. As you can see the left-hand sidebar stops half-way down the 
page


Some pages will always be short, like

  http://www.bolide.co.uk/actions/addsubscriber.taf


And some pages will be of variable length, dependent on how many results the search 
provides


Any thoughts on ways to track the resulting page height? I can count the number of 
records returned in a search but this isn't always an totally accurate guide as some 
entries take up more space than others

I don't want to use frames. Currently the sidebars come straight out of tango 
variables and their content is dynamically-generated. All pages are dynamic. the site 
is built on Filemaker so super-complex calculations are out...

Ideally I would add a simple calc to the sidebar; this would mean the page templates 
wouldn't need altering
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