slideshow auto height doen't consider footer

dennismullen

The auto height feature in the homepage slideshow auto sizes the slideshow to fit the screen even with subject mater above it.
But it doesn't account for the footer below it. This means the whole page doesn't fit on the screen and you also get a scroll bar.

Ideally you would get a homepage that sizes itself to the screen.

Cheers,

mbonocore

Thanks Dennis, I have verified this and passed it onto the engineers.

dennismullen

dennismullen wrote: »

The auto height feature in the homepage slideshow auto sizes the slideshow to fit the screen even with subject mater above it.
But it doesn't account for the footer below it. This means the whole page doesn't fit on the screen and you also get a scroll bar.

Ideally you would get a homepage that sizes itself to the screen.

Cheers,

This is a real oldie that still isn't fixed.

The only usable setting is 3x1 as all others push the footer off the page.

www.dennismullen.com

Cheers,

bokehlover71

I think this is almost the same problem I am struggling with on this page: http://www.viknefoto.no/Slideshow

I want the border to be 50 pixels on all sides around the slideshow, but whatever I do, the content is a little too high, and the scrollbar appears. I don't even have a footer, and the problem is even there if the slideshow aspect is 3:1.

It is not a very big deal, but annoying nevertheless. How can I make the page content always be some pixels shorter?

leftquark

bokehlover71 wrote: »

I think this is almost the same problem I am struggling with on this page: http://www.viknefoto.no/Slideshow

I want the border to be 50 pixels on all sides around the slideshow, but whatever I do, the content is a little too high, and the scrollbar appears. I don't even have a footer, and the problem is even there if the slideshow aspect is 3:1.

It is not a very big deal, but annoying nevertheless. How can I make the page content always be some pixels shorter?

You have some beautiful photos there! Setting "Fill Height" to OFF and removing the following line of Custom CSS will do the trick for you, it's adding additional margin that's causing the page to extend below the height of the screen:

margin: 50px 0 38px 50px!important;

bokehlover71

leftquark wrote: »

You have some beautiful photos there! Setting "Fill Height" to OFF and removing the following line of Custom CSS will do the trick for you, it's adding additional margin that's causing the page to extend below the height of the screen:

margin: 50px 0 38px 50px!important;

Thanks a lot! I have tried to remove the CSS, but it didn't help. I have also tried to enter new custom CSS, change the page layout margins, and the margins in the content block, but nothing helps. The margins are correct on all sides (move the mouse over a picture and see the control buttons in the corners), but the content block is always too high for the browser window, I think 38 pixels too much.

Edit:
I found a kind of solution. I discovered that if I use only 12px margin on top and bottom, it works fine! But 50px seems to be impossible :-)

dennismullen

dennismullen wrote: »

The auto height feature in the homepage slideshow auto sizes the slideshow to fit the screen even with subject mater above it.
But it doesn't account for the footer below it. This means the whole page doesn't fit on the screen and you also get a scroll bar.

Ideally you would get a homepage that sizes itself to the screen.

Cheers,

Still not fixed.

Cheers,

leftquark

dennismullen wrote: »

Still not fixed.

I concur that it would be great to make sure the height of these blocks fits within the height of the screen but we want to make sure we're focusing our resources on items that impact the vast majority of our customers. While you could argue, and I'd agree with you, that fixing this would fix it for a large # of users, we actually haven't seen any significant complaint about its behavior (other than here and a few tickets on the help desk). Lastly, a fix for this is not as simple as it may seem. Monitor, browser and window sizes can all change and the way browsers render the page is typically from the top of the code down... When we render the slideshow we don't necessarily know the height of the footer since it hasn't rendered yet. Once the page has loaded we could detect it and shrink he slideshow but this would slow page loads down and make the page appear jumpy.

feelgood13

Could someone pls explain to me what the "auto height ratio" in slideshow does? I go thru all the selection 4x3, 3x4, etc and it doesn't seem to do anything.