Height vs. ScrollHeight

RadTreeList provides two properties for controlling its height declaratively or programmatically:

• RadTreeListInstance.Height

• RadTreeListInstance.ClientSettings.Scrolling.ScrollHeight

Height determines the height of the whole RadTreeList control, as it is applied to its outermost HTML element. ScrollHeight determines the height of the control's scrollable area when scrolling is enabled. Depending on whether static headers are enabled or not, the scrollable area includes different portions of the RadTreeList control:

• If static headers are enabled, the scrollable container includes only the data and footer items. The header and pager are "static" (not scrolled).

• If static headers are not enabled, the scrollable container includes everything.

Height and ScrollHeight should not be used at the same time. In this case ScrollHeight will be ignored.

Depending on whether Height or ScrollHeight is set, RadTreeList behaves differently:

• If Height is set, it is applied to the whole treelist and the control calculates the height of its scrollable container on the client. The height of the scrollable container will depend on the height of the header, footer and pager which will be subtracted from the total RadTreeList height.

• If ScrollHeight is set, it is applied to the scrollable container directly and the RadTreeList control occupies as much vertical space as it needs to accommodate the elements, which are outside the scrollable container. In other words,the total RadTreeList height will be larger than the ScrollHeight value.

ScrollHeight should not be set in percent.

Using ScrollHeight instead of Height will improve the RadTreeList client-side performance and prevent vertical flickering, which is inevitable in the case when the control needs to calculate and adjust its vertical layout on the client.