Ok, perhaps my question wasn't specific enough... Since there isn't enough content to fill the sidebar for the full length of the page, what do you want it to do. The sidebar doesn't have any background color to it, so do you just want to extend the blue border all the way to the bottom?
If so, reorganize your table structure so that the border in the sidebar area "stretches" if the main content area has more content in it. /John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicholas Froome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Building appropriate page heights on dynamic pages > >What do you want the sidebar to do? What's wrong with what it does now? > > > I want the height of the sidebar to match that of the main content in the body of the page. This height is variable - as detailed below > > > > > > 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 > >> ________________________________________________________________________ > >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > > >________________________________________________________________________ > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
