Preserved Topic: How do I use percent in IE? (Page 1 of 1)

Ok... I've been making a bunch of pages, and testing them in Netscape (on my Mac), and figured that fixing things up for IE (5.0 for the Mac) wouldn't be awful, since I've been pretty careful to keep things clean and simple, and have a separate section of a setup funtion devoted to each browser. But when I try to use "width=50%", for example, TheLayer.left doesn't give me anything.

I'd like to be able to use the width of an invisible layer to tell me how wide the person's browser window is, and use that information elsewhere. It works fine in Netscape, but I can't seem to get it to work in IE. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
--SCarab

You can get the browser's width in a diferent way you know.

in NS4 use
browserWidth = innerWidth;
browserHeight = innerHeight;

in IE4 (and 5 I assume)
browserWidth = document.body.clientWidth;
browserHeight = document.body.clientHeight;

Does that make things simpler?

osh

There were other things I was thinking of doing with the percentages, but now that you mention it, I see that I can do pretty much all of those things using the browser width and height. So, yes, that does help quite a bit. Thanks. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/smile.gif">

--SCarab