/** | |
* Polyfill for the vw, vh, vm units | |
* Requires StyleFix from -prefix-free http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/ | |
* @author Lea Verou | |
*/ | |
(function() { | |
if(!window.StyleFix) { | |
return; | |
} | |
// Feature test | |
var dummy = document.createElement('_').style, | |
units = ['vw', 'vh', 'vm'].filter(function(unit) { | |
dummy.width = ''; | |
dummy.width = '10' + unit; | |
return !dummy.width; | |
}); | |
if(!units.length) { | |
return; | |
} | |
StyleFix.register(function(css) { | |
var w = innerWidth, h = innerHeight, m = Math.min(w,h); | |
return css.replace(RegExp('\\b(\\d+)(' + units.join('|') + ')\\b', 'gi'), function($0, num, unit) { | |
switch (unit) { | |
case 'vw': | |
return (num * w / 100) + 'px'; | |
case 'vh': | |
return num * h / 100 + 'px'; | |
case 'vm': | |
return num * m / 100 + 'px'; | |
} | |
}); | |
}); | |
})(); |
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Interesting. Would it be possible to see a version without StyleFix as a dependency? (if you/anyone else have time). |
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StyleFix merely XHRs linked stylesheets and processes CSS from them and <style> elements and style attributes. It wouldn't be any smaller without that dependency (you'd only save 1 or 2 helper functions that aren't used here). |
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Any further documentation for this anywhere? Has it been tested in most browsers? |
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Not much testing done. I'd assume it works anywhere that -prefix-free does. |
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I'm assuming this doesn't react to changes in the viewport's size? Any chance of implementing that somehow? It would be incredibly powerful for responsive design. |
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I know, I'm trying to come up with (reasonable) ways to do that. Nothing so far though. |
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This is awesome! I got it to parse floating-point numbers with some help from http://www.regular-expressions.info/floatingpoint.html If you like you can update your Gist (Google led me here so it will probably be of use to others). |
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I also thought long and hard about how to make this responsive. I tried adding an event listener to window resize with an interruptible If you could get it to simply append a new style declaration of px values, and on subsequent passes replace only the new declaration (not the original one), then the previously mentioned resize listener would work. i.e. instead of
it would do:
And then later after a resize:
I would try it but my regex-fu is not that good. I may attempt this later. |
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So, I liked the challenge and made it work responsively: https://gist.github.com/zeorin/5551591 I made sure that there is a 200 millisecond delay after the resize finishes before the function runs, otherwise it is very resource intensive. Maybe 200 is too long? Meh. Also, I made sure that prefixed properties are matched as well as normal ones, and that only the desired pattern matches. The regex is a monster but I left a comment to a handy regex debugger if you wanna be sure that I did it right. Regexes are performance hungry, so I recommend that if anyone uses this that they only apply viewport units to as little selectors as possible (I have it on just one, the wrapper element), and that everything else uses ems based off that [distant] parent element. @jonikorpi, you might like this. |
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@zeorin do you have a demo I could check out? I'd like to see how you execute your ems based off a distant parent strategy. I can't wrap my head around it. |
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Neat, thanks for sharing! But what’s the There are instead Being able to declare an element’s width and/or height conditionally as minimally (or maximally) a percentage of either the viewport’s height or it’s width, whichever is the smallest (or biggest), can be very useful for responsive design, esp. reckoning with device orientation, m.m. portrait/landscape. @LeaVerou — Is this polyfill being developed any further? I found this implementation by @saabi to be somewhat more up-to-date (albeit much more heavy). (And it has an impressive demo!) ⟶ https://github.com/saabi/vminpoly |
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what do you mean stylefix??? |
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Is there any standalone one? |
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Only Integer values are covered not float values like 3.25vw |
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PS: Yes, I know it only processes integers. Didn't have the time to fix that (and I didn't need it either), if anyone does be my guest.