Browser shows empty space after rerendering a page with less content

[tdevos09]

Hi,

we are using RichFaces and the PortletBridge to develop Portlets and use them in a JBoss-Portal.

When we are rerendering a page with a rich:dataTable in the second step with less content as before, the IE 6 and 7 shows the result page centered in the dimension of the first bigger page and doesn't recalculate the size requirement of the new page.

This results in that the user see at first an empty space and he means there is no result page, he can work with.

The surprise is, if you press the CTRL-Key and move the mousewheel, the browser will display the page in the correct way.

Have anyone an idea to display the page on the correct way?

Many thanks.

Thorsten

[tdevos09]

In ddition to yesterday's  post:

I was dealing the whole day with that problem. It is no  special component that causes this problem.

If the page becomes to big in  horizontal direction the IE 6 & 7 didn't rerender correctly in  vertical direction anymore, if the content decreases. If I delete columns in the "rich:dataTable" everything works fine. But that is not a satisfying solution, because there are several pages affected.

Also if the browser resolution is minimized, this problem appears.

Did anyone here know a  bugfix for that

or

otherwise a Javascript code to trigger  "Ctrl-Key + Mouse Scrollwheel" via programm?

Thank you in advance.

[nbelaevski]

Hi Thorsten,

Please check if triggering "hasLayout" helps for the problematic elements: http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html

Also check what's value of "compatMode": http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533687(VS.85).aspx