Brwoser and screen width?

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I'd like to know how wide the browser window is at any given time as
well as the screen width with ASP.NET. Is there an easy way to do
that? Thanks.

-John
John Baima
 
Mark Rae said:
This is a property of the browser which isn't passed to the server as part
of the request's server variables collection. This means that it's not
available server-side directly.

However, you can retrieve this via client-side JavaScript. This is a bit of
an inexact science, as different browsers use different properties for this
information, e.g.

screen.width
screen.availWidth
window.innerWidth
document.documentElement.clientWidth
document.body.clientWidth

If you need these values server-side, your only option is to populate hidden
fields with their values so that they can be inspected during postbacks...
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Do you have any examples of this? I do mostly winform programming but
I would have thought that this would be something that lots of people
would be interested in.

-John

John Baima
 
Mark Rae said:
Depends what you intend to do with the information, and whether you need to
know it client-side or server-side...

Can you provide a bit more information about what you're trying to do...?
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I need it server side. I have several text items in a database that I
want to display and I want to get as many columns as possible in a
table, but I don't want the user to have to scroll right and left. So,
I have to know how wide each of the elements are and how much screen
I have to work with.

I did get the scheme of:

http://www.devcity.net/Articles/64/1/screenresolution.aspx

working and extended it to what I need. Now I just need to know the
width of text elements :-)

-John

John Baima
 
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