Christian Heilmann

Safari, small windows and DOMcollapse

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006 at 9:24 am

I just had a lot of complaints telling me my free script DOMcollapse is crap (I sometimes wonder why I bother to offer these things as all you get is complaints, half of which caused by bad implementation /rant) as it doesn’t work in Safari in a certain situation.

The problem reproduction sounds like an old school text adventure:

For Safari only, it works in other browsers

  • collapse the open item
  • make the browser window small enough to show a vertical scrollbar
  • expand the element again.
  • the scrollbar changes, but the section is not shown – unless you resize the window a bit once more

Is there any workaround? I don’t want to do things like window.resizeTo to force a refresh… And if I have to, is there a safe object detection that only targets Safari?

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