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How to Detect the Highlighted Row Has Reached the Top of a Table?

 
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I have a table enclosed in a <div ...>. There is a heading in the table and the table has hundreds of rows.

Because I set the height of the <div ...>, only 10 rows can be viewed at a time. I have put a highlighter in the table. When users use the keyboard downward/upward arrow keys, the next row is highlighted. I have also managed to scroll the next set of 10 rows (11th row to 20th row, etc.) into the viewing area; i.e. div.scrollTop.

But, if I am moving highlighter up, I am not supposed to scroll the next set of 10 rows (it is one of client requirements). I have to scroll row by row.

How do I detect that the highlighted row is at the top of the viewing area? I have seen "offsetTop", "offsetParent", etc. but do not know how to use those methods. Please help.
 
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Are your rows dynamic? I mean are they in jsp, how have you set-up the highlighter, using javascript with ids on the tr tags or...
 
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Although the web page is coded in JSF, the table, once constructed using the data that are retrieved from the database, is not a dynamic one.

I use the JavaScript to highlight rows of the table. In JSF, I have:

In JavaScript, I have:
 
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This is the way I coded:


But if the highlighted row is not the "top row" in the viewing area that is set by the div, I do not want any scrolling to happen. I only want the next row that is right above the current row to be highlighted.

I want the scroll to happen (i.e., the next row above to be "scrollIntoView" ) when the highlighted row is the "top row".

This is why I want to test if the current row is at the top in the viewing area.

Please help if you know how to do it. Thank you.
 
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Hi Jiapei, I wish i could help you. i was understanding it to be more of HTML/javascript issue. I am new to JSF, and i am not aware how JSF and javascripts are linked and I am stuck there.
 
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It is entirely a JavaScript issue. The presence of JSF does not have any impact on the problem that I am trying to solve.
 
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Sound interesting. Are you trying to pre-load 100 <tr>'s in between your <table></table> and hide some of those <tr>s by javascript? If yes, how are you going to display only, say, the 21th- 29th <tr>s while making sure the 1st-20th and 30th-100th rows occupy no space in the table?
 
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I am not hiding any <tr>. See the code of the very first posting of this thread -- there is a <div> outside the <table> ... </table>. I set the height and width of the <div> with scrollbars. This is why I ask 'scroll' related questions.
 
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I've spent some time playing around with the offsetTop/scrollTop properties. It seems that these are what you are after:

 
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