get the size of a table or cell

[chris]

is there a way by using html or javascript or anything else for that matter
to detirmine the actual height or width of a table or cell

for example if i only set the height to 100 and the data in the cell needs a
higher cell it expands to suit - i want to find out what the actual height
ends up ??

thanks for your help

chris

[Will Gittoes]

chris wrote:

is there a way by using html or javascript or anything else for that matter
to detirmine the actual height or width of a table or cell

for example if i only set the height to 100
Make sure you tell it if this is 100 PIXELS (px), PERCENT (%) etc...
This is important!

and the data in the cell needs a higher cell it expands to suit - i want to find out what the actual height
ends up ??

thanks for your help

chris

No, not that I know of, sorry. Annoying, isn't it?

Just work around it; use good code, learn CSS (http://www.webmonkey.com)
and you can have per-pixel accuracy over your pages anyway.

[Martin Honnen]

chris wrote:

is there a way by using html or javascript or anything else for that matter
to detirmine the actual height or width of a table or cell

for example if i only set the height to 100 and the data in the cell needs a
higher cell it expands to suit - i want to find out what the actual height
ends up ??

Most browsers (Netscape 6/7, Mozilla, IE 4/5/6, Opera 7 for sure) allow
you to read the offsetWidth/offsetHeight of an element e.g.
<td id="aCell">... </td>

var cell;
if (document.getEl ementById) {
cell = document.getEle mentById('aCell ');
}
else if (document.all) {
cell = document.all['aCell'];
}
if (cell) {
alert(cell.offs etWidth + 'x' + cell.offsetHeig ht);
}

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Denzil]

"chris" wrote in message news:

is there a way by using html or javascript or anything else for that matter
to detirmine the actual height or width of a table or cell

Hi,

The following link from MSDN gives all the DHTML Object Model
properties that are related to the dimension and location of elements.
Worth a see.

[Measuring Element Dimension and Location]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ientheight.asp

Cheerz,
Denzil

[Denzil]

de***********@l ycos.com (Denzil) wrote in message news:<29******* *************** ****@posting.go ogle.com>...

The following link from MSDN gives all the DHTML Object Model
properties that are related to the dimension and location of elements.
Worth a see.

[Measuring Element Dimension and Location]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ientheight.asp

This is the link - [Measuring Element Dimension and Location]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de.../measuring.asp

Cheerz,
Denzil

[noone]

"Will Gittoes" <As********@NoS pam.org> skrev i en meddelelse
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chris wrote:

is there a way by using html or javascript or anything else for that matter to detirmine the actual height or width of a table or cell

for example if i only set the height to 100

Make sure you tell it if this is 100 PIXELS (px), PERCENT (%) etc...
This is important!

and the data in the cell needs a

higher cell it expands to suit - i want to find out what the actual height ends up ??

thanks for your help

chris

No, not that I know of, sorry. Annoying, isn't it?

Actually, if you can set a property, then you can also read a property.
Anything else wouldn't make much sense.

Robert

[Will Gittoes]

noone wrote:

"Will Gittoes" <As********@NoS pam.org> skrev i en meddelelse
news:1092735001 .91079@ftpsrv1. ..

chris wrote:

is there a way by using html or javascript or anything else for that
matter
to detirmine the actual height or width of a table or cell

for example if i only set the height to 100

Make sure you tell it if this is 100 PIXELS (px), PERCENT (%) etc...
This is important!

and the data in the cell needs a

higher cell it expands to suit - i want to find out what the actual
height
ends up ??

thanks for your help

chris

No, not that I know of, sorry. Annoying, isn't it?

Actually, if you can set a property, then you can also read a property.
Anything else wouldn't make much sense.

Robert

But that merely reads back the property you set!

If you did something in Javascript such as:
element_name = document.getEle mentById("Eleme ntName");
element_name.st yle.height="50p x"

If you then do this:
alert(element_n ame.style.heigh t);
You will get 50px - no matter WHAT size it has actually been rendered
(i.e. not taking into account a giant image in the element etc.).