What happens when width and height are '0px'?

[ohaya]

Hi,

I was wondering what happens when width and height in a style (e.g., in
a DIV) are set to '0px'? For example something like:

style="position: absolute; width: 0px; height: 0px;"

Thanks,
Jim

[Harlan Messinger]

ohaya <ohaya_NO_SPAM@NO_SPAM_cox.net> wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering what happens when width and height in a style (e.g., in
a DIV) are set to '0px'? For example something like:

style="position: absolute; width: 0px; height: 0px;"

Try it and see?

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[ohaya]

Harlan Messinger wrote:

ohaya <ohaya_NO_SPAM@NO_SPAM_cox.net> wrote:

Hi,

I was wondering what happens when width and height in a style (e.g., in
a DIV) are set to '0px'? For example something like:

style="position: absolute; width: 0px; height: 0px;"

Try it and see?

Harlan,

I think that I've kind of figured out what's going on.

It turns out that there was an 'onload' event handler that was suppose
to resize the area from the 'width: 0px; height: 0px;" when the onload
event fired. I had missed it :(.

The problem that I'm still trying to work out is that when the 'content'
in the area is 'large' (I haven't figured out exactly how large yet, but
a 7MB content does it), and when IE6 is the browser, the page with the
'width: 0px; height: 0px;" seems to hang (I actually ran a test
overnight earlier - CPU utilization was 100% on the client), so it seems
like it was never getting to fire the onload event.

Setting 'width: 1px; height: 1px;' seems to get it working again, but
I'm curious if anyone has ever run across this problem before. Is it a
known problem with IE6?

Thanks,
Jim