如何在Ajax将内容扩展到屏幕之外时找到页面高度？

Question

I am having difficulty setting the appropriate height of a left column and the positioning of a footer, relative to the content in the center column (populated by Ajax).

My code is working for purely client-side layouts, but it is not detecting any changes made to the height by Ajax (being server-side and all). So how might I get the height of the page, including the changes made by Ajax?

I'm thinking I may need to set a JavaScript variable from my PHP file that determines the Ajax height... or maybe it would be useful to determine if an Ajax event was triggered or not...

Any ideas, common solutions?

Answer 1

Add javascript code to the page that runs after the AJAX code is executed to determine the height. Use jquery liberally throughout.