Rails spinoffs - Mar 2006 - RE: question about auto-updating divwithoverflow:auto and maintaining position

No problem!

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Jeremy Kitchen
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:39 PM
To: rails-spinoffs-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] question about auto-updating
divwithoverflow:auto and maintaining position

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 12:27, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 March 2006 12:24, Ryan Gahl wrote:
> > You should be able to do this by changing the div''s
.scrollTop value
via
> > javascript (maybe just pick a very large number to ensure bottom is
hit,
> > like 10,000).
what I ended up doing is this:
<div id="wrap" style="overflow:auto">
 <div id="inner"></div>
</div>

then in my javascript I did:
$(''wrap'').scrollTop =
$(''inner'').offsetHeight;
> good call :)  Now to figure out if the user is actually scrolled all
the
> way to the bottom (I figure I won''t force a scroll if they
aren''t at
the
> bottom, signalling to me that they''ve scrolled themselves :)
I went the lazy route and added a checkbox ;)

Thanks again for the help!

-Jeremy

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