Set Scroll Bar Position
I have an ASP page that always has different content.
I want the scroll bar always at the very bottom of the page.
I can set it if i use:
document.body.scrollTop=300
but it is not always 300
any ideas?
Please be browser independent.
Thanks!!!
- Mike
Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments. Psalms 112:1
Suzanne posted this at 00:54 — 22nd February 2002.
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If you always have new content, wouldn't they be able to see that when they get to your page? Newest content at the top would assure that they would see it. And that's as cross-browser as possible!
It's also the easiest solution.
Other solutions, however, would be using cookies and scooting people to the right section based on where they were last. Someone else can help you with that. It's used a lot for bulletin boards.
Suzanne
mycoolross posted this at 03:15 — 22nd February 2002.
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Sorry maybe I was not clear enough.
It is for an asp chat app. The page does a refresh to display new messages. They are appended to the bottom
of the other messages. Consequently you have to scroll down to see the last post. I want the scroll bar postitioned so the last post is visible. The scroll bar should always be at the bottom of the page.
Thanks,
- Mike
Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments. Psalms 112:1
Suzanne posted this at 04:57 — 22nd February 2002.
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Then the cookie solution and internal targets would be your best bet if you can't turn that around so the newest message is more logically at the top.
mycoolross posted this at 15:12 — 22nd February 2002.
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Is there not a way in Javascript or DHTML
(which I guess would not be browser independent)
to do the following
document.body.scrollTop=VeryUtmostLastPositionBottomofPage
Thanks,
Mike
Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments. Psalms 112:1
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 22:47 — 23rd February 2002.
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How about page anchors?
DoResponse.Write sPost
Loop 'Output all your posts
Response.Write "<a name='VeryUtmostLastPositionBottomofPage'>" 'create an anchor
And when the page refreshes, instead of going to just the page itself, make it go to page.asp#VeryUtmostLastPositionBottomofPage.
This way it reloads at the location of the anchor, which is always right after the last post.
I hope this is what you're asking about.
Also, how do you refresh the page? I don't think this is possible if you use tags.
detox posted this at 13:42 — 24th February 2002.
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Good call Abhishek. Just goes to show the simple solution is often the best!
COBOLdinosaur posted this at 20:31 — 24th February 2002.
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There is actually a very simple solutuion:
Always works because if the value specified is greater than the page length then it gets set to the length of the page.
Build a better mousetrap, and a new improved mouse will come along and steal the cheese.
Cd&
mycoolross posted this at 21:49 — 24th February 2002.
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Thanks CobolDinosaur!
I actually did this on Friday. I set it to some ridiculous number and it worked great. I appreciate your common sense solution.
Thank you very much,
- Mike
Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments. Psalms 112:1
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 05:25 — 25th February 2002.
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Guess there's always something simpler, eh?
Suzanne posted this at 08:26 — 25th February 2002.
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I must point out that it only works if you set it to an obscenely large number. And that it is possible to have the page scroll that long (but likely it wouldn't). So it's not as reasonable a solution as inverting the entries.
Plus, lol, it doesn't work if JavaScript is disabled.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 09:14 — 25th February 2002.
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Suzanne, all of the 6 or 7 ASP chat scripts that I know of use frames and javascript to the degree that none would be usable without enabling them. So I think it's safe to use the javascript method.
I gather that this is supposed to be not dissimilar to an instant messaging program? If so, then I don't think it'd be wise to break the standard of appending new messages at the bottom.
Suzanne posted this at 20:29 — 25th February 2002.
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Ah, good point! Convention is important!
The purpose & audience are all important. I would wonder why you'd use this technology for a messaging system, but I'll shoosh now.
S
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