carouFredSel responsive height

What worked for me (even as far back as version 6.0.3 from my template):

Was setting height: 'variable' in both items AND main options like:

    $('#foo').carouFredSel({
    responsive: true,
    width: '100%',
    height: 'variable',
    items: {
        height: 'variable'
    }
});

I can resize at any point and no it longer crops the text in the DIVs etc...

I stumbled upon this issue a while ago; the only solution I found is to resize the container when the browser is being resized. It does the trick but the pedant in me doesn't like it much.

I only made a reference to the carousel, and added the onCreate function:

var $carousel = $("#swiper");

$carousel.carouFredSel({
  width: "100%",
  height: "auto",
  responsive: true,
  auto: true,
  scroll: { items: 1, fx: 'scroll' },
  duration: 1000,
  swipe: { onTouch: true, onMouse: true },
  items: { visible: { min: 4, max: 4 } },
  onCreate: onCreate
});​

function onCreate() {
  $(window).on('resize', onResize).trigger('resize');
}

function onResize() {
  // Get all the possible height values from the slides
  var heights = $carousel.children().map(function() { return $(this).height(); });
  // Find the max height and set it
  $carousel.parent().add($carousel).height(Math.max.apply(null, heights));
}

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If you are still using this plugin in 2015, then it's time to move on.
The free version is no longer supported and the commercial version is now a Wordpress plugin. Plus who needs to hack a slider to make it responsive nowadays ?!

$('#foo2').carouFredSel({
      responsive: true,
      auto: true,
      width: "100%",
      height: "100%",
      scroll: 3,
      prev: '#prev4',
      next: '#next4',
      items: {
        width: '100%',
        height: '100%'
      }
    }).trigger('resize');

I had an issue in carouFredsel 6.2.0 where the wrapper that's created updated it's height OK when given height:'variable' in the config, but the actual list of items would be stuck with the height of the first item. This then cropped off any subsequent items that were taller than the first. The updateSizes trigger didn't seem to do anything, so I solved it using the onAfter event;

scroll : {
  onAfter : function( data ) {          
    var carousel_height = $(this).parents('.caroufredsel_wrapper').css('height');
    $(this).css('height', carousel_height);
  }
 }