rich:popupPanel doesn't work correct after migrating to 4.5.7.Final

[m-bulau]

Hi all,

we have some rich:popupPanel's with dynamic content and all of them set to autosized = true. For example one rich:popupPanel contains a rich:collapsiblePanel (switchType = client) that is closed by default if the rich:popupPanel opens. If the user is expanding the rich:collapsiblePanel the rich:popupPanel isn't resized due to the content of the rich:collapsiblePanel. Instead the rich:popupPanel shows scrollbars on the right side and on the bottom to scroll through the content.

Another example is a rich:popupPanel containing a short form to add some data and a rich:dataTable below that is grown up if the user add some content. It's also the same problem: the rich:popupPanel isn't resized due to the content of the rich:dataTable. Instead the rich:popupPanel shows scrollbars on the right side and on the bottom to scroll through the content.

We've used RichFaces 4.3.6.Final before and everything works fine.

After investigating I figured out that RichFaces now calculates the width and height of the rich:popupPanel and set these information to the div's "popupId_container", "popupId_shadow" and "popupId_content_scroller" as style attributes. These information are not re-calculated in case of any changes to the content. It's only re-calculated if I call "popup.hide();popup.show();".

With RF 4.3.6.Final the div's contains no information about width and height, thus the rich:popupPanel reduce or grow up with the content.

As a workaround, we currently call a Javascript method in "onshow" that removes the widht and height attributes of the div's and set a "right: -5px;" to the "_shadow"-div. Than the behavior is same as we had with RF 4.3.6.Final.

From my point of view, this is a bug because the autosizing doesn't work correct anymore. Should I create a ticket for this or do you know any other ways to configure autosizing work correctly?

Regards,

Marco

[michpetrov]

Even though it worked like that I'm not sure the autosized attribute was meant to work as an autoREsize as well, leaving the sizing up to the browser had its issues so we had to change it to fixed dimensions. However there's no easy way to tell if the content changes so we cannot respond to it. The auto-resizing works if you use AJAX, otherwise you can use popup.resizeListener() to trigger a resize.

[askkuber]

Thanks issue resolved.