Topic awaiting preservation: reading initial values (Page 1 of 1)

hi people!

i'm trying to read the initial CSS property values (like left, top, clip, ...) and IE returns nothing.

does anybody know a workaround for this? thanks.

get them after the page loads via an onload event handler



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

no no no! the page IS loaded already. the div is created, netscape displays correctly the information, it's only that f#$% IE that returns nothing.

How are you attempting to read the values?
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum2/HTML/001652.html might help.

yeppers gonna need to see some code then.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

This is an IE bug. Unless you set the values through style="" in the tag or through JavaScript, you can't read them.

What I usually end up doing is setting them in the onload event to what I know they already are. Then I can read from them later as necessary.

thanks, slime. i figured that one out

hmmm. shit. i guess i'll have to do it the UGLY way and i HATE that!