OK, I am learning my way around the new DOM, but I am still at a loss
on finding a few things.
I have an HTML document that links to a stylesheet.
/* START STYLESHEET EXAMPLE */
/* styles/mystyles.css */
..leftnav {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13pt;
font-weight: bold;
}
..leftnav A {
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
}
/* END STYLESHEET EXAMPLE */
I am using DIV/SPAN combinations to create some floating links built
into 3D layers on the webpage. For example:
<!-- START HTML SNIPPET -->
<link id="styles" href="styles/mystyles.css" rel="stylesheet "
type="text/css">
<div id="lfnav">
<span id="lflink01" style="position :absolute; left:85px; top:107px"
class="leftnav" >
<a href="javascrip t:void(0);" onClick="getLin k(foo);">Foo</a>
</span>
</div>
<!-- END HTML SNIPPET -->
Note that I am only assigning the upper left position of the
associated SPAN style. Ultimately, I am interested in dynamically
placing these based on the number and size of the links put in place.
This would mean that I would have to have a good idea what the width
and height of each DIV (after populated with text) was. I tried using
the associated
document.getEle mentById('lflin k01').style.wid th
and
document.getEle mentById('lflin k01').style.hei ght
but they come back basically null (I used an alert and the alert came
up blank).
The other thing I considered was calculating at least the height based
on the font size. (although the former would be preferred to get
'both' dimensions) Needless to say, I am now curious how to access my
styles as well.
So this brings me to two questions:
1) Can I retreive the here-to-fore unknown width & height of the DIV
'after' it is populated with text of otherwise undetermined
dimensions.
2) How do I access the individual style elements such as fontSize
(such as the above example) where the styles are linked in a
stylesheet?
Any help is greatly appreciated!!!
Catherine Lynn
