Set Datalist height dynamically

[Peter]

I have a datalist and I want the datalist to grow from no records to fill
the
screen, but not go beyond the screen height. How do I do that?
I've implemented the scroll bars but it works only for the fixed height. I
want
the datalist to grow and shrink and never go beyond the current screen
height, if the data can not fit in one screen I want to implement scroll
bars, but only scroll the datalist not any other parts.

Thank You

Peter

Here's my code, I've tried adding a table, but still can not get it to work.

<asp:Panel ID="Panel1" runat="server" height="300px" ScrollBars="Vertical" >
<table width="100%" style="border: 1px solid; border-color: Blue"
border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" >
<tr>
<td>

<asp:datalist id="dlTemplateList" style="width: 100%;"
datakeyfield="ItemID" runat="server"
cellpadding="1" OnItemDataBound="dlTemplateList_ItemDataBound">
<itemtemplate>
<table class="dataliststyle">
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left" style="width:30px">
<asp:ImageButton ID="ImageButton1" runat="server"
ImageUrl="~/images/icon_sitelog_16px.gif"
onclick="ImageButton1_Click"/>

</td>
<td style="width:320px" class="reportname">
<asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLinkReport" Runat="Server"
Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "ObjectName") %>'
NavigateUrl='~/DesktopModules/Report/Viewer.aspx?ReportID=<%#
DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "ItemID") %>'
Target="_top"
/>

<asp:Label ID="lblContent1" runat="server" CssClass="Normal"/>
</td>
<td>
<span id="spanInModuleB" style="overflow:auto; ">
<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" CssClass="description"
Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, "Description") %>'/>

</span>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

</itemtemplate>

</asp:datalist>

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Hi Peter,

From your description, you're wantting to make a DataList's height grows
dynamically and when it reach a certain maxmium limitation make it become
scrollable, correct?

As for scrolling datalist, I have a idea that use a <div> to wrapper your
DataList, thus, you can apply style on the DIV so that it will display
scrollbar when its inner content exceed its height.

#WWW FAQs: How do I add a scrollbar to part of a page?
http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/scrolling.html

#how to get a scrollbar on a div-section in an html-page?
http://quomon.com/question_how_scrollbar_div_section_html_page_901.aspx

And you may need to adjust the div's height according to your current
page's height. You may consider use client script to get document body
height. How do you think?

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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>From: "Peter" <czu...@nospam.nospam>
>Subject: Set Datalist height dynamically
>Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:20:15 -0500

[Peter]

Thank you very much, it works great!

"Steven Cheng [MSFT]" <stc...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:qBtdhRTo...@TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl...

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

You're welcome :)