bobsmith
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| Posted: 01/19/2010, 9:48 PM |
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Hi all,
We have dotted a few YUI autocomplete features through our application and initially I believed that the width of the dropdown container needed to be set explicitly using CSS to prevent it being a tiny width and therefore squeezing up the contents.
However, I have noticed that sometimes, the dropdown container will nicely autosize to the width of the contents.
I get different behaviour displaying the same contents on different pages and I can't spot the pattern.
I would like to ensure it simply autosizes everywhere and avoid fiddling with explicit pixel widths. Does anyone know how I can achieve this?
Thanks in advance
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bobsmith
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| Posted: 01/24/2010, 9:07 PM |
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After much frustrating troubleshooting I finally seem to have resolved this. I thought I would post my findings here like a good citizen in the hope that I might save someone else from the same difficulties.
Basically - the YUI autocomplete renders its dropdown inside a DIV tag, which seems to inherit styles from its container(s) in ways which I can't claim to understand fully. In my case, the input box happened to be in a table that had align="center" set. If I removed this, the dropdown list stopped wrapping.
I then found that I could edit my main CSS file and use CSS to override the YUI class to force no-wrap as follows:
.yui-ac-content {
white-space: nowrap
}
With this in place, the dropdown list appears to avoid wrapping in all circumstances where it was previously and therefore my problem is solved.
Bob
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