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1. peek
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #
   

   Hi there!

   I'm building a site which features sidebars next to each post/article displaying random thumbnails linking to other posts.
   Each sidebar should never be longer/bigger than the post it's sitting next to.
   Now of course the height of the posts vary and I want to find out/calculate the height of each post and then generate a sidebar with more or less thumbnails.

   What would be the best way to make this happen?
   Javascript??

   Best,
   p

2. peek
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #
   

   well, so far i know i can get a divs height with javascript.
   http://wordpressapi.com/2010/03/04/div-height-javascript-div-element-height-auto/
   the problem is, the moment i can do that, php is already finished generating the html and so the sidebars...

3. WPyogi
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 5 months ago #
   

   Perhaps putting both the post div and the thumbnails div in another div and using overflow hidden on the thumbnails div?

4. peek
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #
   

   i thought of that too, but that would mean, i would overlap the next post...

   heres a screenshot of the design/sketch:
   http://aq295.w4yserver.at/screenshot.png

   here is a current version: http://aq295.w4yserver.at/wordpress/
   but a lot is still to be done, work in progress!

   how about getting div height, the first time php generated a post and save that value for each post. then use this value, the second time the page gets viewed, to generate the corresponding sidebar. am i crazy?

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