Chaos Project

Hey guys, I'm trying to create a code box for my web design project.

So here are my thoughts on it. I want a code box which displays code (Obviously). However I want it to have a height restriction. Easy enough, set the height in the CSS style to whatever. However, I don't want it to be that height if theres only one line of code.

Example: One line of code.

Multiple lines: On my browser, the code box's height gets restricted. (Not sure bout you guys)

This is what I'm hoping to achieve. Which gives it a sorta liquid but static height. Any help on this would be gladly appreciated.

Now onto my second question, is there any possible way to copy text using javascript or whatever? Even PHP? (Preferably PHP). Anyways thanks for any bit of help guys.

Bump?

You can only use PHP to generate a site, not edit it afterwards while it's still loaded without having to reload it. That's what Javascript is for.
Just throwing it out there to point you in the right direction. You will probably have to do this with Javascript if I understand right what you want to do.

Yea figured. Would you know how to have a method in javascript constantly get called? Like an update method? Maybe then I can just have it check elements height and set the height manually.

I think you have to implement a callback event "on_text_changed" or something in that manner (similar to how C# works) and then change it there. There is no constant update in websites like in other applications.

A good way to do this would be to use javascript to check the amount of text in the box, then change the box's class (or even a single attribute) via javascript if there's a certain amount.

Theres a CSS property called max-height. I discovered this when peaking at a themes CSS style sheet for chaos project. I found the code box style and found it. :S You guys lied to me :V

It sounded like you wanted it to look a certain way when there was only one line :P Max-height (I thought anyways) was basic knowledge. It doesn't work on internet explorer though.

Screw I.E. xD

Yea basically I wanted the textbox to fit the number of lines up to a certain point.

I agree. IE is the most annoying backwards browser ever. Trying to get layouts to not break on IE is a nightmare for quite a few things. It literally costs thousands of extra dollars for companies because of the mountain of extra time and effort making things look good on IE requires. (some layouts look like crap without min/max with/height settings, the inability to use the inline-block attribute, how older IE versions handle PNG transparency, absolute positioning errors, etc).

I say down with IE :P