codegumbo » CSS http://codegumbo.com Laissez Les Bon Code Roulez! Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:06:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 CSS, max-height http://codegumbo.com/index.php/2008/12/16/css-max-height/ http://codegumbo.com/index.php/2008/12/16/css-max-height/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:57:50 +0000 stuart http://codegumbo.com/?p=129 I wish I had something of substance to add today, but I’ve been overwhelmed by personal stuff.  My oldest daughter has been sick with strep for the last week, so I’ve been having to rearrange a lot of my schedule so I can hang out with her when needed.  Consequently, I’m just wiped in the evenings. 

Anyway, you may have noticed that I’ve been playing around with my website, especially with my new blogroll page.  I”ve been adding some blogs to it using RSS feeds, and one thing has become clear: different RSS feeds behave differently when asked to return an item.  For example, some blog postings auto truncate themselves after a few phrases; for example, Brent Ozar:

Brent Ozar

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Contrast this with Andy Warren’s feed:

It Depends (Andy Warren)

SQLRally Meeting Minutes - Thu, 09 Sep 2010

The starting point for a good meeting is an agenda and minutes. It took us a bit to catch up, but the minutes of our planning meetings so far are now available thanks to some work from PASS HQ, you can see them at http://www.sqlpass.org/Events/PASSSQLRally.aspx. I hope you’ll read them. I know minute aren’t page turners!

As I read them and think about all the discussion, it’s interesting how there are so many small discussions to be had and so many small decisions to be made. At a high level I think the formula is simple and direct, and now we just do all the things we can think of to make it work. In some ways I wish I could ask all of you on a lot of these, but that just doesn’t scale. Instead, we’ll share the minutes along with supplemental posts, and ask for your input on things that I think you’re most interested in or consider to be fun; picking the logo, pre-con process, and speaker selection.

Anyway, read the minutes.

Now, while I like reading Andy’s stuff, I don’t necessarily want a bunch of lengthy articles on my blogroll page; I tried to figure out a way to limit the amount of text returned, when I tripped across this nifty CSS property: max-height. From DevGuru: The max-height property is used to set the maximum height of an element. Other properties can be used to set the height, width, maximum width, minimum height and the minimum width. This property is not inherited. (note that Devguru also specifies that this property is not currently supported by any browser; it works in IE7. Go figure).

Anyway, I simply add the max-height to my div container wrapped around the feedsnap plugin, and suddenly the RSS feed truncates after a certain pixel height.

<div style=”overflow:hidden;max-height:100px”></div>

It Depends (Andy Warren)

SQLRally Meeting Minutes - Thu, 09 Sep 2010

The starting point for a good meeting is an agenda and minutes. It took us a bit to catch up, but the minutes of our planning meetings so far are now available thanks to some work from PASS HQ, you can see them at http://www.sqlpass.org/Events/PASSSQLRally.aspx. I hope you’ll read them. I know minute aren’t page turners!

As I read them and think about all the discussion, it’s interesting how there are so many small discussions to be had and so many small decisions to be made. At a high level I think the formula is simple and direct, and now we just do all the things we can think of to make it work. In some ways I wish I could ask all of you on a lot of these, but that just doesn’t scale. Instead, we’ll share the minutes along with supplemental posts, and ask for your input on things that I think you’re most interested in or consider to be fun; picking the logo, pre-con process, and speaker selection.

Anyway, read the minutes.

 

Anyway, I hope this puts some ideas in your head.

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