Are you sure offsetHeight doesn't work in IE?

Post #230,078 by JayMehaffey 10/19/05 2:09:32 PM Reply	Are you sure offsetHeight doesn't work in IE? offsetHeight is a Microsoft extension copied by Mozilla, not a W3W standard. So if it works in Firefox is should work in IE. Jay
Post #230,080 by admin 10/19/05 2:37:52 PM Reply	Yep. testframe.html: <html>\r\n <body>\r\n <iframe id="daFrame" src="testcontent.html" height="100px" width="100%" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"></iframe>\r\n <div style="border: solid 3px green;" width="100%">The bottom content.</div>\r\n </body>\r\n</html> \r\n\r\ntestcontent.html: <html>\r\n <head>\r\n <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">\r\nfunction foo()\r\n{\r\n window.parent.document.getElementById("daFrame").height = document.getElementById("daBody").offsetHeight + 16;\r\n}\r\n </script>\r\n </head>\r\n <body id="daBody" onLoad="foo();">\r\n1<p>\r\n2<p>\r\n3<p>\r\n4<p>\r\n5<p>\r\n6<p>\r\n7<p>\r\n8<p>\r\n9<p>\r\n10<p>\r\n </body>\r\n</html> \r\n\r\nLoad testframe.html. In Firefox, the frame resizes on load to the size of the content. In IE, it doesn't. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #230,081 by altmann 10/19/05 3:01:49 PM 10/19/05 3:09:09 PM Reply	nevermind Its true but it doesn't really matter now does it? offsetHeight is read-only in IE ATFM [link\|http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/offsetheight.asp\|http://msdn.microsof.../offsetheight.asp] -- Chris Altmann Edited by altmann Oct. 19, 2005, 03:09:09 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #230,085 by altmann 10/19/05 3:17:11 PM Reply	Try scrollHeight instead [link\|http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/scrollheight.asp\|http://msdn.microsof.../scrollheight.asp] -- Chris Altmann
Post #230,089 by ChrisR 10/19/05 3:25:53 PM Reply	Scroll This might do the trick, but it will not compute correctly during the onload event (ie doesn't calculate them until after they are drawn). `\n window.parent.document.getElementById("daFrame").height =\n document.getElementById("daBody").scrollHeight - \n document.getElementById("daBody").scrollTop + 16;\n`
Post #230,095 by admin 10/19/05 3:51:58 PM Reply	WTF. That worked... I did an enumeration and there was always a 0 in scrollHeight in IE. fbog Thanks. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #230,104 by JayMehaffey 10/19/05 4:24:26 PM Reply	Hmm, well it certainly doesn't work I see why it doesn't work. Both are described as returning the height of an object. But Firefox is returning the height of the page as it would be displayed on it's own, IE is returning the height the frame reserves for drawing the object. Not quite the same thing. I'm not sure what you can do to get around this. One idea would be to put the contents of the testContent file into a table or div that fills the entire page. Then pull the size of that. But I have no idea if that would actually work. Jay

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