[Javascript] Re: Getting frame height and width

[Rodney Myers]

clientHeight and clientWidth are style properties that may be applied to a
textarea according to Danny Goodman, that was my point. Perhaps you were
thinking of them also applying to the window object.

Rodney

Peter Brunone wrote:

>     Correct; that was never in doubt.  The question was how height and width
> apply to a text area since, like text inputs, they tend to be measured in
> characters rather than in pixels.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rodney Myers" <rodney at aflyingstart.net>
>
>
> > clientHeight and clientWidth are assigned in pixels according to Danny G
> in
> > DHTML-TDR (O'Reilly)
> > R
> >
> > phumes1 at home.com wrote:
> >
> > > At 02:09 PM 6/14/01 -0500, you wrote:
> > > >phumes,
> > > >
> > > >     clientHeight and clientWidth are the attributes you want...
> although I'm
> > > >not sure what the "other browser" uses.
> > > >
> > > >     Are you trying to assign a width or height attribute to a
> textarea?
> > >
> > > Yes
> > >
> > > >I've never done this, but even if it works, I'd guess that the textarea
> is
> > > >assuming the measurements are in characters rather than in pixels.
> > >
> > > Ah....that's not good.
>

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