RE: calculating table height based on table content

Matt,
Maybe I didn't read that right.
Why don't you just do
<div style="overflow:scroll;height:Y0px;width:X0px;">
<xsl:apply-templates....
</div>
You can set the Xpx and Ypx in an onload function which basicaly
calculates screenHeight - (headerHeight + footerHeight). Then it doesn't
matter what size the screen is. Otherwise you have no chance it is a
*mare*

Ciao Chris

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Matt Alexander
> Sent: 28 September 2001 21:52
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:  calculating table height based on table content
> 
> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> i am creating a dhtml table which has a scrollable content 
> section. i need to set the height of the tables content in 
> pixels (the column headers and footer are static height) so 
> that the scrolling function knows how much it needs to scroll 
> up and down these rows.
> 
> i currently calculate the height of this area by... 
> <xsl:variable name="content_height"><xsl:value-of
> select="count(//row)*25"/></xsl:variable>
> which is fine when all of the data fits nicely into the 
> column. however, if the data is wider than the set width, it 
> wraps onto the next line, etc... so i need a way to determine 
> how many "lines" each row is taking up. the number of columns 
> and rows are variable. the width for the columns + row_data 
> is set inside the column elements.
> 
> for each row i need to check all of the row_data's for the 
> length of their content and divide it by the width set in its 
> correlating column element adjustinf with some approximate 
> for pixels/letter, giving me the approximate # of lines this 
> row takes. then for each row i just count the greatest, to 
> determine how many lines this row takes up, then sum all of 
> these together and multiply by 25 as my set row height.
> 
> i don't know that i explained this well,
> it seems like quite a mess to me,
> but here is a generic example of my data...
> thanks,
> matt
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <tab>
> 	<columns>
> 		<column width="25">...</column>
> 		<column width="100">...</column>
> 		<column width="50">...</column>
> 		<column width="77">...</column>
> 	</columns>
> 	<rows>
> 		<row> 
> 			<row_data>...</row_data>
> 			<row_data>...</row_data>
> 			<row_data>...</row_data>
> 			<row_data>...</row_data>
> 		</row>
> 		<row>
> 			<row_data>...</row_data>
> 			<row_data>...</row_data>
> 			<row_data>...</row_data>
> 			<row_data>...</row_data>
> 		</row>
> 	</rows>
> </tab>
> 
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