I need to insert an applet into a table-row and get that table-row's height to dynamically resize according to the browser's window size. If I put fixed values for width & height in the td-tag, it shows the applet fine, but I need to be able to resize this according to the client's size capabilities, so using fixed sizes is not the answer.
The snippet below should illustrate where my problem lies:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>JavaAppletTest </title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#6f6f6f" >
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" >
<tr valign="top">
<td><img src="images/myheader.jpg" alt="myheader.jpg"></td>
<td><img src="images/mylogo.jpg" alt="mylogo.jpg"></td>
</tr>
<tr >
<td colspan="2" >
<object codetype="application/java"
classid="java:applets.MyTestApplet.class">
<param name="codebase" value="." >
<param name="archive" value="MyTestApplet.jar" >
<param name="code" value="applets.MyTestApplet" >
</object>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
What do I need to do to make the row-dimensions dynamic?
[edit] jitter's answer indicates a possible solution. I also need to adjust the relevant sizes when the user resizes the window: what event & how do I do that?
I suggest using javascript to write the object
/embed
tag and calculating the size dynamically.
This should do the trick basically but be aware of the fact that getting the correct width and size can be tricky. I refer you to Finding the size of the browser window.
...
<head>
...
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onresize = function(event) {
document.getElementById('myobject_tag').height = window.innerHeight;
document.getElementById('myobject_tag').width = window.innerWidth;
}
</script>
</head>
...
<body bgcolor="#6f6f6f">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
<tr valign="top">
<td><img src="images/myheader.jpg" alt="myheader.jpg"></td>
<td><img src="images/mylogo.jpg" alt="mylogo.jpg"></td>
</tr>
<script type="text/javascript">
var height = window.innerHeight;
var width = window.innerWidth;
document.write(
'<tr><td colspan="2"><object id="myobject_tag"\n' +
'codetype="application/java"\n' +
'classid="java:applets.MyTestApplet.class"\n' +
'width="' + width + '"\n' +
'height="' + height + '"\n>' +
'<param name="codebase" value=".">\n' +
'<param name="archive" value="MyTestApplet.jar">\n' +
'<param name="code" value="applets.MyTestApplet">\n' +
'</object></td></tr>'
);
</script>
</table>
...