[Dynapi-Dev] Content Size in NS6 Revisited

[Scott A. L. <sc...@sc...>]

FWIW I have some information on getting content size in NS6.  It's not a
total solution, though.

In both NS6 and IE5/5.5, you can do this:

w = layer.offsetWidth
h = layer.offsetHeight

These are not part of W3C's CSS spec, and they're not in the .style
property of the element.

layer.offsetHeight is pretty accurate for getting the height of a layer
you haven't explicitly set a height value for.  However, offsetWidth
always ends up giving you the width of the parent element, because
relatively positioned DIVs tend to stretch width-wise, filling the area
of their parent.  So there is no "offset" difference.

For example, I ran a test:

<div id="myDiv">Hello</div>

The values come out to be:

offsetWidth = 1162
offsetHeight = 19

offsetHeight is correct, but offsetWidth is the width of the document
(my browser window), which is the <DIV>'s parent.

Hope that helps somebody.

scottandrew

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