Resize popup window to fit text

[Terren]

I have a popup window that is used to display text from a database.
Some times it can be a few words, sometimes it can be a hundred words.

What I would like to do is resize the popup window to fit the text.
Well actually it is just the height that needs to be resized. I have
set the width to 600. I have put the text in a table and I was thinking
I could set the height of the window to be the height of the table plus
some for room. I don't know if that is possible.

At first I tried to count the number of lines and multiple by a factor
by that doesn't work so nicely because I was getting the number of
lines by dividing the number of charaters by the maximum number of
characters in a line.

Let me know if I am just being stupid and I should abondon this quest

 

[Terren]

What? No one replied? Well here is the solution. Turns out it is really
easy, maybe that is why no one replied.

Here is the script function to do this.

<script type="text/javascript">
function ChangeHeight(window_width){
var mtop,mleft
if (screen.height>
document.getElementById("table_id").offsetHeight){
//resize window
window.resizeTo(window_width,document.getElementById("table_id").offsetHeight+75);
// The +75 is because the title bar takes up some space. I am sure that
this will be different for different resolutions
//Center Window
mtop=(screen.height/2)-(window.length/2);
mleft=(screen.width/2)- (window_width/2);
window.moveTo(mleft,mtop);
}else{
//resize window
window.resizeTo(window_width,screen.height-75);
//Center Window
mtop=(screen.height/2)-((screen.height)/2);
mleft=(screen.width/2)-(window_width/2);
window.moveTo(mleft,mtop);
}//end if
}//end function
</script>

 

[Evertjan.]

Terren wrote on 29 sep 2005 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

What? No one replied? Well here is the solution. Turns out it is really
easy, maybe that is why no one replied.

No one replied,
because you are asking a clientside Q in a serverside scripting NG,
and so you were off topic.

Choose your NG carefully according to your Q.

 

[Terren]

Good point

 

[Evertjan.]

Terren wrote on 29 sep 2005 in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

Good point

Could be,
but if you don't quote what you are anwering on,
as per Netiquette,
how are we to know what you are talking about?

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