ScrollSpy Plugin in JQuery - Implementing automatic vertical text scrolling with dynamic height customization

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ScrollSpy Plugin in JQuery - Implementing automatic vertical text scrolling with dynamic height customization

I have been using this code to display the most recent user comments on my website, where some comments are concise while others are more lengthy.

If you inspect the source code, you will notice that the height is set to 90px and overflow is set to hidden:

#sidebar li {
    height: 90px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

Now I am attempting to display the entire text here by changing the overflow attribute to visible.

However, because the height is fixed at 90px, longer comments end up overlapping previous entries - causing the last line of a long comment to appear on top of the preceding entry.

This issue only occurs in Internet Explorer; Chrome automatically adjusts the height accordingly. One option could be to increase the height from 90px to 130px, but this solution is not ideal as it would leave excessive blank space for single-line comments and still may not accommodate very long comments within the 130px limit.

Changing the height attribute to "auto" is not feasible as it is required for the scrolling effect script.

Is there a way to resolve this problem specifically in IE? Thank you.

css jquery-ui

Answer 1

Answer №1

Consider adjusting your CSS to include min-height:90px; This will ensure the element has a minimum height of 90px even if it only contains one line of text, but will expand fluidly if more lines are added.

Additionally, remove the 'overflow: hidden;' property from the styles.

UPDATED -- WORKING CODE EXAMPLE:

Here is the complete code that has been thoroughly tested (just as I mentioned, setting min-height works perfectly :) Apologies for the delay, I've been quite busy... :/

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Simply Spy</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--
/* CSS styles omitted for brevity */

-->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(function () {
    // jQuery functionality omitted for brevity
});

(function ($) {
// JavaScript function omitted for brevity

})(jQuery);

</script>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Simple Spy</h1>

    <div id="sidebar">
        <ul class="spy">
                <li>
                        <a href="#" title="View round"><img width="70" height="70" src="image.png" title="" /></a>
                        <h5><a href="#" title="View round">round</a></h5>
                        <p class="info">Nov 29th 2008 by <a href="#" title="Visit user's page.">user</a></p>
                        <p class='rating none'>Not Rated</p>
                        <p class="tags"></p>
                </li>
                <!-- Other list items omitted for brevity -->
        </ul>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

The visual styling has not been refined in this example, but you can see that some items appear larger than others.. :)

Feel free to copy and paste the code into an .html file to view the output!

Answer 2

Consider adjusting your CSS to include min-height:90px; This will ensure the element has a minimum height of 90px even if it only contains one line of text, but will expand fluidly if more lines are added.

Additionally, remove the 'overflow: hidden;' property from the styles.

UPDATED -- WORKING CODE EXAMPLE:

Here is the complete code that has been thoroughly tested (just as I mentioned, setting min-height works perfectly :) Apologies for the delay, I've been quite busy... :/

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Simply Spy</title>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
<!--
/* CSS styles omitted for brevity */

-->
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(function () {
    // jQuery functionality omitted for brevity
});

(function ($) {
// JavaScript function omitted for brevity

})(jQuery);

</script>
</head>
<body>
    <h1>Simple Spy</h1>

    <div id="sidebar">
        <ul class="spy">
                <li>
                        <a href="#" title="View round"><img width="70" height="70" src="image.png" title="" /></a>
                        <h5><a href="#" title="View round">round</a></h5>
                        <p class="info">Nov 29th 2008 by <a href="#" title="Visit user's page.">user</a></p>
                        <p class='rating none'>Not Rated</p>
                        <p class="tags"></p>
                </li>
                <!-- Other list items omitted for brevity -->
        </ul>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

The visual styling has not been refined in this example, but you can see that some items appear larger than others.. :)

Feel free to copy and paste the code into an .html file to view the output!

ScrollSpy Plugin in JQuery - Implementing automatic vertical text scrolling with dynamic height customization

Answer №1

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