It was years ago so I don't remember, but probably about a week.
My first job was a startup providing an e-commerce recommendation service, doing the frontend stuff, and we'd just added carousel functionality to our service, so you can see lots of recommendations. For some strange reason, adding the carousel also caused the page we put it on to sprout 6 feet of whitespace on the right side. There was no (visible) added content, the page just got a scrollbar that ran for a ways off to the right.
I wound up saving a local copy of the page, and removing scripts until I found the culprit. It turned out that the carousel we were using was one of those types that puts the content in a big ribbon div and moves that left and right within the window div, with overflow: hidden on the window so we didn't render the full ribbon. However, even if we couldn't see the ribbon, the client's quick-view library could, and slapped its own "Hover here to see the quick-view modal" buttons on everything in the ribbon. Again, this was years ago so I'm probably misremembering exactly how this worked- Because those buttons were outside of the ribbon, and absolutely positioned, they still took up render space, but because they were set to hide until the user hovered over the product image they were associated with, they were not visible on the page.
IIRC the solution was to add some hack on the carousel so that it toggled the quick-view tags on hidden/revealed images and then called the quick-view function to do its business. Awful, but it worked.
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It was years ago so I don't remember, but probably about a week.
My first job was a startup providing an e-commerce recommendation service, doing the frontend stuff, and we'd just added carousel functionality to our service, so you can see lots of recommendations. For some strange reason, adding the carousel also caused the page we put it on to sprout 6 feet of whitespace on the right side. There was no (visible) added content, the page just got a scrollbar that ran for a ways off to the right.
I wound up saving a local copy of the page, and removing scripts until I found the culprit. It turned out that the carousel we were using was one of those types that puts the content in a big ribbon div and moves that left and right within the window div, with
overflow: hiddenon the window so we didn't render the full ribbon. However, even if we couldn't see the ribbon, the client's quick-view library could, and slapped its own "Hover here to see the quick-view modal" buttons on everything in the ribbon. Again, this was years ago so I'm probably misremembering exactly how this worked- Because those buttons were outside of the ribbon, and absolutely positioned, they still took up render space, but because they were set to hide until the user hovered over the product image they were associated with, they were not visible on the page.IIRC the solution was to add some hack on the carousel so that it toggled the quick-view tags on hidden/revealed images and then called the quick-view function to do its business. Awful, but it worked.