I have a problem getting the width of a div's content (of the content, not the div itself).
The usual approach would be Javascript's scrollWidth property, I think.
The problem: within this div, another div is positioned absolute and has a negative right value (-350px). I can't change this (it's a menu, sliding in when you click a button, overlapping other elements. It needs to be positioned like that).
The scrollWidth returns the width of the outer div's content PLUS the negative right-value (in Chrome, didn't test other browsers).
Here's a short example:
/* ... */
http://jsfiddle.net/R4Cs5/12/
But I need the content's width that is accessible by scrollbars.
Any ideas?
Please use Jquery, no plain Javascript.
Thanks in advance.
I see that your jsfiddle doesn't import any jQuery library, while you wanted to use it. Anyway, with jQuery you can use .width to get an element's width see here: jsfiddle.
jQuery's .width() method doesn't seem to account for scroll bars. This is problematic for me, since I'd like to set the width of some children to equal the width of their parent. I used jQuery similar to the following:
$('#contentDiv').width($('#containerDiv').width())
In this example, #contentDiv is the element I'd like to size, and I want to set it to have the width of #containerDiv, which is its parent element. My problem is that this cuts off the side of #contentDiv, as seen in this fiddle.
In my actual code, I have several elements that I'm sizing with jQuery, which all need to fit in the scrollable div, so just setting the css of #contentDiv to 100% is not an option. What's the best way of dealing with scroll bar widths of divs in jQuery?
The best solution I found while working around this solution is this:
http://chris-spittles.co.uk/?p=531
jQuery is all powerful and everything but sometimes a small dash of native JS is all you need to render pixel perfect pages... I hope you will find this solution helpful!
UPDATED:
None of the jQuery width-finding methods account for the scroll bar. In my original example, using .innerWidth(true) LOOKS like it works, but only because it returns and object, which causes width to fail and the inner contents size themselves to fit in the available space, because the example wasn't very good. However, it's possible to write a function to compute the available space in a div with a scroll bar in it, which can then be used to position the contents as you wish.
To write that function, I took advantage of the fact that, when a div is appended to a div with a scroll bar in it, it takes up the full available width (i.e. the inner width of the parent minus the width of the scroll bar).
The function looks like this:
function noScrollWidth(div){
var measureDiv = $('<div id="measureDiv">');
div.append(measureDiv);
var width = measureDiv.outerWidth();
measureDiv.remove();
return width
};
I then use this to size my content div:
$('#contentDiv').width(noScrollWidth($('#containerDiv')));
Working fiddle.
Try this:
$('#contentDiv').width($('#containerDiv')[0].clientWidth)
For more information about that solution, see this StackOverflow answer.
Another approach I'd try is setting both elements' box-sizing property to 'border-box', and see whether setting your contentDiv's width to 100% then works the way you want.
Now that fewer projects worry about crufty old browsers anymore, 'border-box' can make things easier to work with. Be sure to test multiple browsers on multiple platforms, though, because I'm not sure they all handle scrollbars the same way.
I'm animating the width of a li element using jQuery in a simple snippet of code. I'm using hover() as the handler and .animate() to animate the width. Here is my code.
$('li').each(function() {
//store the original width of the element in a variable
var oldWidth = $(this).width();
$(this).hover(
function() {
//when the mouse enters the element, animate width to 900px
$(this).animate({width: '900px'}, 600, 'linear')
},
function() {
//when the mouse leaves, animate back to the original width
$(this).animate({width: oldWidth}, 350, 'linear')
}
);
});
The code is really really simple and works but with one very odd quirk in Chrome. When animating the elements in and out, the li elements "shake" as if they're really cold and were shivering. You can see the behavior here in a live example: http://missmd.org/ (edit: bug is now fixed)
I've animated a bunch of stuff before with jQuery and never seen this behavior. Is there any explanation for why it occurs and how I can get around it? I'm wondering if it's because I've floated the elements to the right and am animating to the left. The bug is maddening and detracts from the overall presentation a lot (at least to me). Anyone else seen this before?
Edit to clarify: it's not the actual li element that "shivers" it's the text within it that shakes slightly but noticeably from left to right very quickly as the animation runs. I'm stumped.
Edit two: after fiddling with the CSS a bit now I can only reproduce the effect in Chrome (21.0.1180.60 beta-m for me). In Firefox it works as intended. It also works great in IE. Very ironic that Chrome (usually great with this stuff) is giving me trouble now. Pulls hair out, checks sanity
Here is my HTML to help get to the bottom of this. We have reproduced the problem in ChrisFrancis' jsFiddle.
<nav>
<ul class="nav">
<li class="one">
<a href="homeandnews/">
<span class="title">Home and News</span>
<br/>
<span class="subtitle">Learn more about me and read general updates!</span>
</a>
</li>
</ul>
<nav>
I'm completely stumped. This could also be a bug in Chrome/V8 JS engine and there's nothing we can do about it.
I was looking to this issue as well and this: -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; solve my problem. I add this odd shaking while using CSS3 transform on a SVG.
More info can be found here: CSS3 transform rotate causing 1px shift in Chrome
Hope it helps
I changed your css: ul.nav li a, adding float: right to it and that fix the shake.
Anyway if it helps, I had the same problem when animating height of a div within another div with height:auto. Changing the height to a fix width solved it.
Hope it helps.
This seems to be a bug in Chrome version 21.0.1180.60 and may also be present in other versions. Nothing wrong with the code here and I guess we just leave it up to workarounds or submitting a bug report now.
Sigh.
Had similar issue with shaking SVGs when there's a CSS transition applied to parent tag. I tried to apply everything I could randomly, and this fix finally helped:
svg {
transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0);
}
This problem occurred with some divs when I was trying to animate another div within it. What I noticed is that it happens if the div or element has css property display:inline-block. Making the element float would have solved the problem, but inline-block was required in my case.
I noticed that the element had also vertical-align:middle css property. Changing it to vertical-align:text-bottom solved the problem. No more shaking effect in Chrome v23 (may be the bug is still persisting in newer versions).
function allowscroll()
{
if (screen.width<1200){document.getElementById('html').style.cssText='overflow-x: scroll !important;';};
}
<body onLoad="allowscroll();">
hi there, the above code works for any element, e.g. subbing "html" for "wrapper", but how is it possible to edit the css applied to html? Basically, because of overflow:hidden not inheriting in ie7 - which causes a big empty righthand margin and horizontal scrollbar (only in ie7, ie 8 compatibilty), ive set the css to
html {overflow-x:hidden;}
this is the only way to fix it without losing necessary functionality, e.g. overflowed graphics visibilty.
and this is all well and good, however, lower screen resolutions need the horizontal scroll just to see all of the page itself, so I'm attempting to restore the horizontal scrollbar for those users - and restore the big right margin for anyone who happens to be, for example ie7 1024 by 768 - I can live with that (unless anyone happens to have a superdupa solution).
document.getElementById('html').style.cssText='overflow-x: scroll !important;';
So the above code works for editing the CSS of any element, but not the CSS of the html.
I've also tried:
function allowscroll()
{
if (screen.width<1200){document.getElementByName('html').style.cssText='overflow-x: scroll !important;';};
}
and
function allowscroll()
{
if (screen.width<1200){window.style.cssText='overflow-x: scroll !important;';};
}
I would really appreciate any help, - if it helps in seeing the solution, the link where this applies is: delight design, basically, its how to take out:
html {overflow-x:hidden;}
from the css when in lower screen resolutions...
many thanks
Will
There are a bunch of different ways to get the html element:
document.documentElement
document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0]
document.body.parentNode
But in all honesty, there must be a better way. I don't have time right now to track down what exactly happened here, but from what I can tell, adding position:relative to whatever needs the overflow might help.
Try document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0]
Note I just edited the answer as getElementsByTagName returns an array. You want the first element in that array.
Just use the documentElement:
document.documentElement
It has full browser suport.
I tried to slide in and out a DIV with the toggle function of jQuery but the result is always jumpy at the start and/or end of the animation. Here's the js code that I use:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#link1').click(
function() {
$('#note_1').parent().slideToggle(5000);
}
);
And the HTML:
<div class="notice">
<p>Here's some text. And more text. <span id="link1">Test1</span></p>
<div class="wrapper">
<div id="note_1">
<p>Some content</p>
<p>More blalba</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
You can also see the complete example here: jQuery Slide test
I usually use Mootools and I can do this slide without any problems with it. But I'm starting a new project in Django and most app in Django use jQuery. So for that and after reading this jQuery vs Mootools I decided that will be a good occasion to start using jQuery. So my first need was to slide this DIV. And it didn't work properly.
I did more search and I found that's an old bug in jQuery with margin and padding applied to the DIV. The solution is to wrap the DIV in another DIV. It didn't fix the thing in my case.
Searching further I found this post Slidedown animation jumprevisited. It fix a jump at one end but not at the other (Test2 in jQuery Slide test).
On Stack Overflow I found this jQuery IE jerky slide animation. In the comments I saw that the problem is with the P tag inside the DIV. If I replace the P tags with DIV tags that fix the problem but that's not a proper solution.
Lastly I found this Weird jQuery behavior slide. Reading it I understood that the problem resolved by switching from P tag to DIV was with the margins of the P (not present in the DIV) and the collapsing of margins between elements. So if I switch the margins to paddings it fix the problem. But I loose the collapsing behavior of margins, collapsing that I want.
Honestly I can say that my first experience with jQuery is not really good. If I want to use one of the simplest effect in jQuery I have to not use the proper function (slideToggle) but instead use some hand made code AND wrap the DIV in another DIV AND switch margins to paddings, messing my layout.
Did I miss a simpler solution ?
As krdluzni suggest, I tried to write as custom script with the animate method. Here's my code:
var $div = $('#note_2').parent();
var height = $div.height();
$('#link2').click(
function () {
if ( $div.height() > 0 ) {
$div.animate({ height: 0 }, { duration: 5000 }).css('overflow', 'hidden');
} else {
$div.animate({ height : height }, { duration: 5000 });
}
return false;
});
But that doesn't work either because jQuery always set the overflow to visible at the end of the animation. So the DIV is reapearing at the end of the animation but overlaid on the rest of the content.
I tried also with UI.Slide (and Scale and Size). It works but the content below the DIV doesn't move with the animation. It only jump at the end/start of the animation to fill the gap. I don't want that.
UPDATE:
One part of the solution is to set the height of the container DIV dynamically before anything. This solve one jumping. But not the one cause by collapsing margin. Here's the code:
var parent_div = $("#note_1").parent();
parent_div.css("height", parent_div.height()+"px");
parent_div.hide();
SECOND UPDATE:
You can see the bug on the jQuery own site at this page (Example B):
Tutorials:Live Examples of jQuery
THIRD UPDATE:
Tried with jQuery 1.4, no more chance :-(
I found what works consistently is setting an invisible 1px border:
border: 1px solid transparent;
No need to fix the width or height or anything else and the animation doesn't jump. Hooray!
The solution is that sliding div must have the width set in pixels. Do not use 'auto' nor '%'. And you will have great result! The problem is in inline elements thats are in a sliding div.
but if they have width in px the height will be identical. Try it.
I've ran into this problem today. I did notice however that disabling all CSS fixed the problem. Also I knew it worked fine before so it must have been recent changes that caused the issue.
It turned out I used transitions in CSS to ease in and out of hovers.
Once these transitions were removed from the elements I was adding everything was fine.
So if you have the same issue, just add these lines to the elements you're adding:
-webkit-transition: none;
-moz-transition: none;
-o-transition: none;
-ms-transition: none;
transition: none;
(I might have abused transitions a bit by not just adding them to the elements I want to have transitions for, but using them for the entire website.)
Try removing all CSS margins from all the elements. Usually jerky animation comes from margins not being taken into account by the animation framework.
Jerking happens when the parent div ".wrapper" in your case has padding.
Padding goes on the child div, not the parent. jQuery is animating height not padding.
Example:
<div class="notice">
<p>Here's some text. And more text. <span id="link1">Test1</span></p>
<div class="wrapper" style="padding: 0">
<div id="note_1" style="padding: 20px">
<p>Some content</p>
<p>More blalba</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
Hope this helps.
I find animate() is the most reliable way to animate anything in jQuery (cross browser at least).
This dynamically wraps the content in a div, then animates the height of that div wrapper by using the height of its inner content.
http://jsfiddle.net/BmWjy/13/
$('a').click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
xToggleHeight($(this).next());
});
//For each collapsible element.
$('.collapsible').each(function() {
//Wrap a div around and set to hidden.
$(this).wrap('<div style="height:0;overflow:hidden;visibility:hidden;"/>');
});
function xToggleHeight(el){
//Get the height of the content including any margins.
var contentHeight = el.children('.collapsible').outerHeight(true);
//If the element is currently expanded.
if(el.hasClass("expanded")){
//Collapse
el.removeClass("expanded")
.stop().animate({height:0},5000,
function(){
//on collapse complete
//Set to hidden so content is invisible.
$(this).css({'overflow':'hidden', 'visibility':'hidden'});
}
);
}else{
//Expand
el.addClass("expanded").css({'overflow':'', 'visibility':'visible'})
.stop().animate({height: contentHeight},5000,
function(){
//on expanded complete
//Set height to auto incase browser/content is resized afterwards.
$(this).css('height','');
}
);
}
}
You could write a custom animation using the animate method. This will give you absolute control over all details.
I noticed if you have a <br /> after your container <div> the animation will also be jumpy. Removing this resolved my problem.
css padding and jquery slideToggle doesn't work well together. Try to box out padding.
There are obviously a lot of different solutions to this issue - and depending on your layout, different solutions have different results.
Here was what I had (stripped down)
<div>
<p>Text</p>
</div>
<div class="hidden">
<p></p>
</div>
When I would use jQuery to show <div class="hidden">, the margin on the <p> element would collapse with the margin of the <p> element above it.
I thought it was strange since they were in different <divs>.
My solution was to eliminate the margin on the bottom of the <p>. Having a margin on one side prevents the margin from the bottom of the first <p> from collapsing with the top of the second <p>.
This workaround solved my problem, can probably be applied to others, but may not work for all.
You just have to modify the up, down effects in effects.js to have them take into account margins or paddings that may exist and then adjust what they perceive to be the total size of the element to accommodate those values...something along these lines....
Effect.BlindDown = function(element) {
element = $(element);
var elementDimensions = element.getDimensions();
//below*
var paddingtop = parseInt(element.getStyle('padding-top'));
var paddingbottom = parseInt(element.getStyle('padding-bottom'));
var totalPadding = paddingtop + paddingbottom;
if(totalPadding > 0)
{
elementDimensions.height = (elementDimensions.height - totalPadding);
}
//above*
return new Effect.Scale(element, 100, Object.extend({
scaleContent: false,
scaleX: false,
scaleFrom: 0,
scaleMode: {originalHeight: elementDimensions.height, originalWidth: elementDimensions.width},
restoreAfterFinish: true,
afterSetup: function(effect) {
effect.element.makeClipping().setStyle({height: '0px'}).show();
},
afterFinishInternal: function(effect) {
effect.element.undoClipping();
}
}, arguments[1] || { }));
};
Try setting the 'position' property of the the container (in this case the .notice div) to 'relative'.
Worked for me.
Source: slideToggle height is "jumping"
There are a lot of suggestions here and a lot of back and forth as to what works. For me, the behavior problem was when the animation of expanding the container would over expand and then bounce back to the correct expansion height (all done as part of the one animation). In way of example, the animation would expand to a height of 500px initially and then retract to 450px. There was no problem with collapse.
The solution that worked was to add to the expanding/collapsing div, a CSS of:
white-space: nowrap;
That worked perfectly - smooth expansion to the correct height.
I had the same issue, but not a single one of the proposed solutions worked for me, so I propose a solution that eliminates relying on slideToggle() altogether.
Spark Notes: Load the page as normal, collect the height of each element you want to toggle, store that height in a special data attribute, and then collapse each element. Then it's as easy as changing the max-height between the value in the element's data-height attribute(expanded) and zero(collapsed). If you want to add extra padding and margins, etc to the elements, I recommend storing those in a separate CSS class to add and remove with the max-height property.
Place the jQuery right after the elements you want to toggle and allow them to execute during page load (so you don't have to watch them all load and then collapse).
HTML
<ul id="foo">
<li>
<h2>Click Me 1</h2>
<div class="bar">Content To Toggle Here 1</div>
</li>
<li>
<h2>Click Me 2</h2>
<div class="bar">Content To Toggle Here 2</div>
</li>
</ul>
CSS
#foo>li>div.bar {transition: all 0.5s;
overflow: hidden;}
jQuery
$('#foo h2').each(function(){
var bar = $(this).siblings('.bar');
bar.attr('data-height', bar.height()); //figure out the height first
bar.css('max-height', '0px'); //then close vertically
});
$('#foo h2').click(function(){
var bar = $(this).siblings('.bar');
if ( bar .css('max-height') == '0px' ){ //if closed (then open)
bar.css('max-height', bar.data('height') + 'px');
} else { //must be open (so close)
bar.css('max-height', '0px');
}
});
Here is a working JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/baacke/9WtvU/
The problem is that you are performing the action on the parent, doing this removes the CSS related to that element.
You need to run the slide on your note1, not the parent of note 1.
I had the same issue and fixed it by moving down a level.
For me removing the min-height from my container solved the problem.
You might try adding a doctype if you don't have one, it worked for me on IE8 after I found the suggestion here on SO: jQuery slideToggle jumps around. He suggests a strict DTD but I just used the doctype that google.com uses: <!doctype html> and it fixed my problem.
i came across the same bug took days to find a solution. the problem is when the element is hidden jquery is getting the wrong height. top fix it you must get the hight before hiding and use a custom animation to that height. its tricky go here for a better explanation
I had the same problem with 'jerkyness' with divs inside my nav tag - my aim is to show an unordered list on hover of the div (if one exists). My lists are dynamically created so they do not have a fixed value.
Heres the fix:
$("nav div").hover(
function() { // i.e. onmouseover function
/****simple lines to fix a % based height to a px based height****/
var h = jQuery(this).find("ul").height(); //find the height
jQuery(this).find("ul").css("height", h);
//set the css height value to this fixed value
/*****************************************************************/
jQuery(this).find("ul").slideDown("500");
},
function(){ // i.e. onmouseout function
jQuery(this).find("ul").slideUp("500");
});
});
Ran into this issue today, saw this question, and started tinkering based on what I saw here. I solved our jumpy issue by removing the position:relative from the CSS of the containing div. No more weirdness after that. My 2 cents.
Make sure you don't have CSS transition rules set globally or on your container or any included elements. It will also cause jerkiness.
In my case I solved it adding style="white-space:nowrap;" to the element to prevent miscalculations on the jQuery function; no need to set a fixed width unless you need to wrap.
I was using slideDown() like this
$('#content').hide().delay(500).slideDown(500);
For me, it was the main container #content element. I was having it hidden and then calling slideDown(). I removed the padding property in the CSS and everything worked fine after that. It's usually a margin, padding, or % width, so the easiest method is commenting out each property and testing them 1 by 1 to get your results.
I just learned that this problem can also occur if there are floated elements in the expanding/collapsing element. In that case, a clearfix (clear: both;) at the end (still within) the animated element can get rid of it.
I had the same issue. I fixed it by adding this:
.delay(100)
Guess giving it more time to think helps it along?
Adding my solution: turned out my issue was flexbox (only in chrome). I had align-items: baseline; set on the parent element. Set align-self: center; to my slideToggling full-width child element and it cleared it right up. Great use of two hours.
For me the solution was, that i had a CSS style definition like following:
* {
transition: all .3s;
}
Removing this was the solution!