Is there a way to determine

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Is there a way to determine

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adni18

1:10 am on Sep 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

Does anyone know if there's a way to determine the dimensions of the inline document space of a window? Ex. not the area of the window itself, just the page width that can be used by the webmaster? Thanks.

Rambo Tribble

2:21 am on Sep 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

While there are some other methods that offer advantages on one platform or another, probably the most universal way to do this is to set the body to height:100%;width:100%; and then use offsetHeight and offsetWidth to find the dimension of that element. Something like:

Note that the offset properties are well supported, but are not part of the official W3C DOM. (Many of the things that work the best, like innerHTML, are not. What does that say?)

JAB Creations

1:47 pm on Sep 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

That script failed in Gecko, IE, and Opera. :-(

Bernard Marx

2:28 pm on Sep 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

Are you referring to the missing + sign?

alert("height="[red]+[/red]view_ht+" & width="+view_wd)

Rambo Tribble

3:30 pm on Sep 21, 2004 (gmt 0)

Oopsie! It's hard for us tribbles to type, you know - no fingers, and all. (Yeah, I'm sure they'll buy that one.)

adni18

5:15 pm on Sep 25, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yeah. Thanks. It works well.