Possible to dynamically expand content?

Chris_Withers

I'm curious if this is even possible. There's a fair bit of space wasted in the default vanilla theme. Down the right hand side, you get a bunch of white space once all the panel content is finished. Is it possible to have the content div expand to fill that space? I've tried creating a single-column theme, but we actually have a plugin that displays standings of a competition in the side panel, so that's not ideal.

http://vancouversouthsiders.ca/forum

422

You could do two things tho.

1. Float side panel so it glides down as you scroll.

Or

1. Set onscroll triggers that show additional sidebar stuff as you scroll.

Both are available jquery plugins

422

Can you be more specific

Chris_Withers

I want to know if it's possible for a page to start out looking like this: http://vancouversouthsiders.ca/forum

Then, when the content of the side panel (categories, in this discussion, what have you) has ended, the remainder of the content on the left expands to the full width of the frame, so it ends up looking like this at the bottom: http://vancouversouthsiders.ca/testforum

422

Content is all forum discussions

Panel is right hand sidebar

So you want to set a trigger that content equals height of sidebar, and then expands as you scroll.?

Chris_Withers

I don't want to confuse the issue by using the wrong terminology, so here's a picture of what I'm imagining.

Chris_Withers

http://imageshack.us/f/444/screenshot20120425at632.png/

422

Ooh nasty lol. No is the long answer

422

an example of which is:

http://css-tricks.com/examples/ScrollingSidebar/

Chris_Withers

That's what I thought. Thanks for the help!