Comments for Niall Doherty's dot biz

Comment on jQuery slideToggle and Internet Explorer by Rob

Rob — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:50:16 +0000

I’m using slideToggle to generate an accordion-like menu. My problem was that IE7 was ignoring the height of the slideToggled element. The net result was that absolutely positioned child elements were getting stretched to the height of the viewport.

After trying a bunch of CSS tricks (including those enumerated above) I ended up writing a couple of jQuery functions that calculate the height of the accordion blocks in question based on their content (whether open or closed) and assign hard pixel heights to them on the fly. This seems to have corrected IE7’s aberrant behavior (thank God!).

Comment on jQuery slideToggle and Internet Explorer by Bryan Blakey

Bryan Blakey — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:37:50 +0000

I needed to use absolute positioning for one of the nested elements in my div that gets slideToggle’d. So I tried the “height: 101%” hack, but that made the sliding div expand to greater than its content, then snap back to the correct size at the end of the animation. The real issue seems to be that the sliding div needs to have the ever elusive “hasLayout” property triggered in IE. Giving it a “min-height: 1%” worked the best for me without other random oddities cropping up. Hopefully that helps anyone who hasn’t yet figured it out!

Comment on Coda-Slider 2.0 by tcg

tcg — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:36:37 +0000

@K: Have you followed the example of embedding videos (on the Demos page, “Example 7: Videos within a slider”)?

Adding the extra wrapper with a height set to the height of the Flash content should set you up. I’m only responding here, for the benefit of others that might find your question here in the comments. I’m not sure of the policy here, but I assume this kind of thing should probably be handled in the forums.

Comment on Coda-Slider 2.0 by K

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:46:00 +0000

Okay, I’ve searched all over these blogs and forums looking for a solution to the Flash issue in Firefox. Can someone please point me to a solution? Everything seems to be working fine but the embedded Flash content appears outside the div when you first open the page (only in FF). Help!

Comment on Coda-Slider 2.0 by Edel Jennings

Edel Jennings — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:08:23 +0000

Hi Niall

Thanks for sharing this. I am wondering how difficult it would be to have an alternative vertical slider to some pages, for subnav in you like?

Comment on Coda-Slider 2.0 by Volker E.

Volker E. — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:48:14 +0000

Thanks for your good work! I’ve got two notes on v. 2.0, first why do you prefer classes to ids in the script, as ids normally are faster than classes even with jQuery’s Sizzle Selector Engine? Is it to make possible many sliders on one page?

The second one, I wanted to ask you if you perhaps thought on starting the name values with a letter, f.e. ‘a1′ instead of solely a number.
Background: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html “ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z])” — I know we are not very often on HTML4, but it’s not unlikely. And it helps preventing browser troubles.

Comment on A quick update to Coda-Slider: unique classes for navigation tabs by Yan

Yan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:53:09 +0000

Hi, I am having the same problem as Dave with scrollbars appearing momentarily (especially on the slower IE6). I have changed all overflow properties to hidden. The above js didnt work for me.

I removed the 200px height but as the width needs to be specified for me, the horizontal scrollbar is still appearing

Can anyone suggest a solution?

Comment on Coda-Slider 2.0 by Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:02:30 +0000

I’ve set up the slider here: http://philipfdeaver.com/ – I’m having issues in IE6 and IE7, the back button works fine but when the forward button is clicked it’s as if it’s clicked twice so that it goes backwards then forwards to the same slide. I’m fairly new to this and haven’t been able to find a solution anywhere, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Comment on Coda-Slider 2.0 by Salmen

Salmen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:52:56 +0000

how can i put the arrows in the bottom ???

Comment on Coda-Slider 2.0 by David Leonardo

David Leonardo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:37:49 +0000

Hello, this version is Awesome! but i have a question, it`s posible an slide inside another slide?? please help me… thnkx