Take a look at the this link. Scroll down a bit and you should see a Facebook comments plugin with an embedded Google map right beneath it.
My problem is, there is a ton of white space between the bottom of the comments plugin and the top of the map. Firebug indicates the white space is at the bottom of the comments plugin (as opposed to the top of the map). However, I can’t seem to find a way to eliminate it.
I’ve tried just using relative CSS positioning to move the map up 50 pixels, but then it sits on top of the comments if there happen to be any. Also, if the user has turned FB comments off, it screws the layout as well.
Any ideas on how to get rid of the excessive white space?
UPDATE: While the answers provided here pointed me in the right direction, it ended up being too much trouble. I simply put the Facebook comments beneath the Google map at the bottom of the page which masks the problem somewhat. Apparently this is a bug according to one of the commenters below, so we’ll just have to wait for a fix.
EDIT: Been toying with these styles for a while, no luck. I can alter the height of the box initially based on Jason’s suggestions, but anything I do screws up the layout (new comments appear BEHIND the map since the comment area stays the same height as its original height, instead of allowing Facebook to dynamically grow the height of its IFRAME element when a comment is added). Any other ideas?
EDIT #2: It seems that the root of the problem is that Facebook automatically assigns a height of 200px to the IFRAME containing the comments box. When comments are added, Facebook dynamically resizes thie IFRAME to the appropriate height. I’d be able to solve my problem if I could find a way to make that default 200px start at 145px. Not sure if this is possible or why Facebook would think that 200 (arbitrary?) was a good height to start at.
EDIT #3: I realize the white space is coming from the IFRAME that Facebook generates and that there’s nothing I can do about that, specifically. I started a bounty on this question because:
1) I find it hard to believe that I’m the only person that has an issue with the way this displays.
2) It’s possible it’s due to the way I configured something?
3) There’s some other workaround I’m not thinking of.
Hopefully the bounty will encourage some creative replies!
Don’t set the height to auto, set the overflow…
Set height:110px and overflow:auto on the Facebook iframe – then comments will expand the height of the iframe dynamically.
Pop these changes in your $().ready function – this works fine for me.