This is what I'm thinking:
- Find the nearest ancestor with an explicit height
- Find all the ancestors with percentage heights and calculate the height of the nearest one of those ancestors to find the available height. Lets call that ancestor NAR and the height NARH.
- Find the distance your element is from the top of its parent (with getBoundingClientRect). Call it DT
- Subtract the top boundary of NAR from DT. Call this A.
- Your maximum height should be NARH-A
Something similar could be done for the minimum.
UPDATE: Ohhhh kay, I implemented this idea and it works! There's a lot of crap it takes into account including margins, borders, padding, scroll bars (even with custom widths), percentage widths, max-height/width, and sibling nodes. Check out this code:
exports.findMaxHeight = function(domNode) {
return findMaxDimension(domNode,'height')
}
exports.findMaxWidth = function(domNode) {
return findMaxDimension(domNode,'width')
}
// finds the maximum height/width (in px) that the passed domNode can take without going outside the boundaries of its parent
// dimension - either 'height' or 'width'
function findMaxDimension(domNode, dimension) {
if(dimension === 'height') {
var inner = 'Top'
var outer = 'Bottom'
var axis = 'Y'
var otherAxis = 'X'
var otherDimension = 'width'
} else {
var inner = 'Left'
var outer = 'Right'
var axis = 'X'
var otherAxis = 'Y'
var otherDimension = 'height'
}
var maxDimension = 'max'+dimension[0].toUpperCase()+dimension.slice(1)
var innerBorderWidth = 'border'+inner+'Width'
var outerBorderWidth = 'border'+outer+'Width'
var innerPaddingWidth = 'padding'+inner
var outerPaddingWidth = 'padding'+outer
var innerMarginWidth = 'margin'+inner
var outerMarginWidth = 'margin'+outer
var overflowDimension = 'overflow'+axis
var propertiesToFetch = [
dimension,maxDimension, overflowDimension,
innerBorderWidth,outerBorderWidth,
innerPaddingWidth,outerPaddingWidth,
innerMarginWidth, outerMarginWidth
]
// find nearest ancestor with an explicit height/width and capture all the ancestors in between
// find the ancestors with heights/widths relative to that one
var ancestry = [], ancestorBottomBorder=0
for(var x=domNode.parentNode; x!=null && x!==document.body.parentNode; x=x.parentNode) {
var styles = getFinalStyle(x,propertiesToFetch)
var h = styles[dimension]
if(h.indexOf('%') === -1 && h.match(new RegExp('\\d')) !== null) { // not a percentage and some kind of length
var nearestAncestorWithExplicitDimension = x
var explicitLength = h
ancestorBottomBorder = parseInt(styles[outerBorderWidth]) + parseInt(styles[outerPaddingWidth])
if(hasScrollBars(x, axis, styles))
ancestorBottomBorder+= getScrollbarLength(x,dimension)
break;
} else {
ancestry.push({node:x, styles:styles})
}
}
if(!nearestAncestorWithExplicitDimension)
return undefined // no maximum
ancestry.reverse()
var maxAvailableDimension = lengthToPixels(explicitLength)
var nodeToFindDistanceFrom = nearestAncestorWithExplicitDimension
ancestry.forEach(function(ancestorInfo) {
var styles = ancestorInfo.styles
var newDimension = lengthToPixels(styles[dimension],maxAvailableDimension)
var possibleNewDimension = lengthToPixels(styles[maxDimension], maxAvailableDimension)
var moreBottomBorder = parseInt(styles[outerBorderWidth]) + parseInt(styles[outerPaddingWidth]) + parseInt(styles[outerMarginWidth])
if(hasScrollBars(ancestorInfo.node, otherAxis, styles))
moreBottomBorder+= getScrollbarLength(ancestorInfo.node,otherDimension)
if(possibleNewDimension !== undefined && (
newDimension !== undefined && possibleNewDimension < newDimension ||
possibleNewDimension < maxAvailableDimension
)
) {
maxAvailableDimension = possibleNewDimension
nodeToFindDistanceFrom = ancestorInfo.node
// ancestorBottomBorder = moreBottomBorder
} else if(newDimension !== undefined) {
maxAvailableDimension = newDimension
nodeToFindDistanceFrom = ancestorInfo.node
// ancestorBottomBorder = moreBottomBorder
} else {
}
ancestorBottomBorder += moreBottomBorder
})
// find the distance from the top
var computedStyle = getComputedStyle(domNode)
var verticalBorderWidth = parseInt(computedStyle[outerBorderWidth]) + parseInt(computedStyle[innerBorderWidth]) +
parseInt(computedStyle[outerPaddingWidth]) + parseInt(computedStyle[innerPaddingWidth]) +
parseInt(computedStyle[outerMarginWidth]) + parseInt(computedStyle[innerMarginWidth])
var distanceFromSide = domNode.getBoundingClientRect()[inner.toLowerCase()] - nodeToFindDistanceFrom.getBoundingClientRect()[inner.toLowerCase()]
return maxAvailableDimension-ancestorBottomBorder-verticalBorderWidth-distanceFromSide
}
// gets the pixel length of a value defined in a real absolute or relative measurement (eg mm)
function lengthToPixels(length, parentLength) {
if(length.indexOf('calc') === 0) {
var innerds = length.slice('calc('.length, -1)
return caculateCalc(innerds, parentLength)
} else {
return basicLengthToPixels(length, parentLength)
}
}
// ignores the existences of 'calc'
function basicLengthToPixels(length, parentLength) {
var lengthParts = length.match(/(-?[0-9]+)(.*)/)
if(lengthParts != null) {
var number = parseInt(lengthParts[1])
var metric = lengthParts[2]
if(metric === '%') {
return parentLength*number/100
} else {
if(lengthToPixels.cache === undefined) lengthToPixels.cache = {}//{px:1}
var conversion = lengthToPixels.cache[metric]
if(conversion === undefined) {
var tester = document.createElement('div')
tester.style.width = 1+metric
tester.style.visibility = 'hidden'
tester.style.display = 'absolute'
document.body.appendChild(tester)
conversion = lengthToPixels.cache[metric] = tester.offsetWidth
document.body.removeChild(tester)
}
return conversion*number
}
}
}
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/number
var number = '(?:\\+|-)?'+ // negative or positive operator
'\\d*'+ // integer part
'(?:\\.\\d*)?'+ // fraction part
'(?:e(?:\\+|-)?\\d*)?' // scientific notation
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/calc
var calcValue = '(?:'+
'('+number+')'+ // length number
'([A-Za-z]+|%)?'+ // optional suffix (% or px/mm/etc)
'|'+
'(\\(.*\\))'+ // more stuff in parens
')'
var calcSequence = calcValue+
'((\\s*'+
'(\\*|/|\\+|-)'+
'\\s*'+calcValue+
')*)'
var calcSequenceItem = '\\s*'+
'(\\*|/|\\+|-)'+
'\\s*'+calcValue
var caculateCalc = function(calcExpression, parentLength) {
var info = calcExpression.match(new RegExp('^'+calcValue))
var number = info[1]
var suffix = info[2]
var calcVal = info[3]
var curSum = 0, curProduct = getCalcNumber(number, suffix, calcVal, parentLength), curSumOp = '+'
var curCalcExpression = calcExpression.slice(info[0].length)
while(curCalcExpression.length > 0) {
info = curCalcExpression.match(new RegExp(calcSequenceItem))
var op = info[1]
number = info[2]
suffix = info[3]
calcVal = info[4]
var length = getCalcNumber(number,suffix,calcVal, parentLength)
if(op in {'*':1,'/':1}) {
curProduct = calcSimpleExpr(curProduct,op,length)
} else if(op === '+' || op === '-') {
curSum = calcSimpleExpr(curSum,curSumOp,curProduct)
curSumOp = op
curProduct = length
}
curCalcExpression = curCalcExpression.slice(info[0].length)
}
curSum = calcSimpleExpr(curSum,curSumOp,curProduct)
return curSum
}
function calcSimpleExpr(operand1, op, operand2) {
if(op === '*') {
return operand1 * operand2
} else if(op === '/') {
return operand1 / operand2
} else if(op === '+') {
return operand1 + operand2
} else if(op === '-') {
return operand1 - operand2
} else {
throw new Error("bad")
}
}
function getCalcNumber(number, suffix, calcVal, parentLength) {
if(calcVal) {
return caculateCalc(calcVal, parentLength)
} else if(suffix) {
return basicLengthToPixels(number+suffix, parentLength)
} else {
return number
}
}
// gets the style property as rendered via any means (style sheets, inline, etc) but does *not* compute values
// domNode - the node to get properties for
// properties - Can be a single property to fetch or an array of properties to fetch
function getFinalStyle(domNode, properties) {
if(!(properties instanceof Array)) properties = [properties]
var parent = domNode.parentNode
if(parent) {
var originalDisplay = parent.style.display
parent.style.display = 'none'
}
var computedStyles = getComputedStyle(domNode)
var result = {}
properties.forEach(function(prop) {
result[prop] = computedStyles[prop]
})
if(parent) {
parent.style.display = originalDisplay
}
return result
}
// from lostsource http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13382516/getting-scroll-bar-width-using-javascript
// dimension - either 'width' or 'height'
function getScrollbarLength(domNode, dimension) {
if(dimension === 'width') {
var offsetDimension = 'offsetWidth'
} else {
var offsetDimension = 'offsetHeight'
}
var outer = document.createElement(domNode.nodeName)
outer.className = domNode.className
outer.style.cssText = domNode.style.cssText
outer.style.visibility = "hidden"
outer.style.width = "100px"
outer.style.height = "100px"
outer.style.top = "0"
outer.style.left = "0"
outer.style.msOverflowStyle = "scrollbar" // needed for WinJS apps
domNode.parentNode.appendChild(outer)
var lengthNoScroll = outer[offsetDimension]
// force scrollbars with both css and a wider inner div
var inner1 = document.createElement("div")
inner1.style[dimension] = "120%" // without this extra inner div, some browsers may decide not to add scoll bars
outer.appendChild(inner1)
outer.style.overflow = "scroll"
var inner2 = document.createElement("div")
inner2.style[dimension] = "100%"
outer.appendChild(inner2) // this must be added after scroll bars are added or browsers are stupid and don't properly resize the object (or maybe they do after a return to the scheduler?)
var lengthWithScroll = inner2[offsetDimension]
domNode.parentNode.removeChild(outer)
return lengthNoScroll - lengthWithScroll
}
// dimension - Either 'y' or 'x'
// computedStyles - (Optional) Pass in the domNodes computed styles if you already have it (since I hear its somewhat expensive)
function hasScrollBars(domNode, dimension, computedStyles) {
dimension = dimension.toUpperCase()
if(dimension === 'Y') {
var length = 'Height'
} else {
var length = 'Width'
}
var scrollLength = 'scroll'+length
var clientLength = 'client'+length
var overflowDimension = 'overflow'+dimension
var hasVScroll = domNode[scrollLength] > domNode[clientLength]
// Check the overflow and overflowY properties for "auto" and "visible" values
var cStyle = computedStyles || getComputedStyle(domNode)
return hasVScroll && (cStyle[overflowDimension] == "visible"
|| cStyle[overflowDimension] == "auto"
)
|| cStyle[overflowDimension] == "scroll"
}
I'll probably put this in an npm/github module cause it seems like something that should be available naively, but isn't and takes a shiteload of work to do right.
