Topic awaiting preservation: onload is fired before table.div is loaded? (Page 1 of 1)

Hmz, weird stuff going on over here. ..

I want to get the offsetHeight and offsetWidth of the content of a window, after it is being loaded.
(I don't know if it's worth mentioning, but the window is being created through window.open)
To do so I've placed a DIV inside of the window, of which I'm getting the offsetWidth and offsetHeight on body.onload. But I've got a div nested inside a table which is in turn nested inside the content-div. This probably sounds confusing, but the construction is as follows: DIV.TABLE.DIV
The content inside of the inner DIV isn't being calculated when the onload-event is fired.
And on top of that, it is initially drawn at the wrong place.
It's not until after the onload that the content is being shown correctly. That is probably why the onload-function excludes it when calculating the offsetWidth and offsetHeight the outer DIV.

See http://www.codewarrior.nl/~bladibla/trouble/ for a more straightforward example. Any help would be welcome. Thanx in advance.



[This message has been edited by Nevel (edited 10-21-2002).]

Ok, turns out I was being stupid (duh ).
I was using position:absolute for divs which were supposed to be at exactly the same place, and which were nested inside of a table.
But I needed to use position:relative to get the offsetHeight of the init div...

By the way, my buggy script *does* accidently solve the "form-objects z-index"-issue
I know I don't have any reason to be proud of that, but I can't help it

It does? Where are the form elements?

You're right, the current page hasn't got any form-elements. But I can easily reconstruct the situation, though I'm afraid it'll have to wait 'till tonight. It's all got to do with the combination of position:relative and position:absolute. As you'll see tomorrow

Yes, do that...

Hmz,

I actually did reconstruct the situation, and in order to find the precize solution I kept minimizing my html-file. But have I gone nuts or isn't there any problem with forms anymore? The problem did existed inside my head alright, but this file works in explorer6+ and netscape7, and also in ns4 and opera??

I ain't doing anything special, just throwing in 2 divs, of which the form hasn't even got to be inside of a div.
Aw, I feel like that guy in American psycho who thought he killed tons of people, but found out he probably didn't :s
Anyway, the file's over here: http://www.codewarrior.nl/~bladibla/overruleForm/

Have you tried that without using in-line styles?

I have now: http://www.codewarrior.nl/~bladibla/overruleForm/overFormExtCss.htm
So you tell me if I'm a fruitcake...

Try it with a dropdown menu.

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Try it with a dropdown menu.

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Yea, do that. I don't think that it'll work.

Aaaah, so THAT was were the bug was hiding
I'm Glad I wasn't going nuts, but it's a shame it doesn't work yet :s
Thanx for pointing it out, Slime.

Ah, too bad...