[OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers doesn't like being pushed aside by Float

[Craig Stanton]

Add this line before the map div and you should see what I'm seeing.

        <div style="width:200px;height:200px;background-color:#666;float:left"></div>
 
So the map div has not been modified from what you'd see in the tutorials, it only has width and height defined. It is not positioned at all, just moved aside by another div that is positioned. I guess that's the problem.
 
~Craig



Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:36:03 -0500
From: Christopher Schmidt 

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 09:31:28AM +1300, Craig Stanton wrote:
> Hi all,
>     I'm new to OpenLayers but have done a lot of searching to find a
>     solution to a problem I have come across straight away. What I did
>     was place a div to the left of the map div, held there by a
>     style="float:left" command. I then discovered that my
>     double-clicks on the map are interpreted as if the map is still up
>     against the left side of the browser window. So if the other div
>     is 100 wide the map is moved 100 pixels to the right. I then click
>     on Africa and the map thinks that I've clicked on Australia. 
>  
> I've seen some emails in these archives discussing the use of map.updateSize(). I put that into my init function but it changed nothing. I believe the problem is that OpenLayers is not aware that it has been displaced from the side of the window. Has anyone come across this and found a solution?

Is your map div positioned absolutely? I would not be surprised to find
that this would be a problem in this case. Otherise, the best thing to
do is take the smallest possible OpenLayers example:

  http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/lite.html 

Modify it as little as possible, and demonstrate the buggy behavior,
preferably by linking to a live instance of it. Ading
style='float:right' to that map div did *not* allow me to reproduce the
effect, so I will need more information to understand the problem.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta


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