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How do I find the computed dimensions of a SELECT?

Apr 20th, 2000 03:02
Martin Honnen, 


NN6 and IE4+ provide the 
  offsetWidth
  offsetHeight
for this. NN4 has no comparable properties so unless you stuff your 
SELECT in a single FORM you stuff into a layer you can't measure the 
dimensions.
Here is the NN6/IE4+ example:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM NAME="formName">
<SELECT NAME="aSelect" 
        ONCLICK="alert(this.offsetWidth + ':' + this.offsetHeight);"
>
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</SELECT>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>