You could go at it in another way, actually, by forcing a scrollbar to
always be present:
body { height: 100.1%; }
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Kim Christensen
<kim.christen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey list,
>
> I'm looking for a way to let my application know when the body height
> has changed to exceed the viewport height. There are quite a few
> different methods which inject elements in the DOM dynamically, so I'm
> not able to implement a check for changed body height in each and
> every one of them.
>
> The thing I'm trying to accomplish is making a message bar (which is
> floating on top of the page, width scaled to the width of the
> viewport) resize whenever a scrollbar appears. Is there an event that
> triggers each time the DOM changes? I've been searching the docs and
> this group, but can't seem to find anything like it (either that, or
> my google-fu is sub-par).
>
> Is there someone that has done something similar?
>
> Regards,
> Kim
>
