document.clientHeight

**Jorge** · Sep 14 '08, 08:25 AM

Re: document.client Height

On Sep 14, 3:27 am, dhtml <dhtmlkitc...@g mail.comwrote:

Other than Safari 2, what other browsers that support
document.client Height ?
>
I would guess some KHTML did.
>
I have found the feature, when it is present, to reliably provide the
height of the viewport, excluding scrollbars.

(element).clien tHeight
document.**body **.clientHeight

All the browsers support that, I think.

site:opera.com "clientHeig ht"
site:mozilla.or g "clientHeig ht"
site:microsoft. com "clientHeig ht"
site:apple.com "clientHeig ht"
site:webkit.org clientHeight

--
Jorge.

**dhtml** · Sep 14 '08, 03:55 PM

Re: document.client Height

Jorge wrote:

On Sep 14, 3:27 am, dhtml <dhtmlkitc...@g mail.comwrote:

>Other than Safari 2, what other browsers that support
>document.clien tHeight ?
>>
>I would guess some KHTML did.
>>
>I have found the feature, when it is present, to reliably provide the
>height of the viewport, excluding scrollbars.

>
(element).clien tHeight
document.**body **.clientHeight
>
All the browsers support that, I think.
>

Most browsers support (element).clien tHeight. But document is not an
element. Not all browsers support document.client Height.

>
--
Jorge.

**Jorge** · Sep 14 '08, 04:55 PM

Re: document.client Height

On Sep 14, 5:53 pm, dhtml <dhtmlkitc...@g mail.comwrote:

>
Most browsers support (element).clien tHeight. But document is not an
element. Not all browsers support document.client Height.
>

javascript:aler t(document.clie ntHeight)

In a Mac: Opera 9.5x, FF2&3, Safari 3&4, Camino, IE5.23, NS9, iCab3 --

undefined.

--
Jorge.

**Arun** · Sep 15 '08, 01:05 PM

Re: document.client Height

On Sep 14, 5:53 pm, Jorge wrote:

On Sep 14, 5:53 pm, dhtml wrote:

Most browsers support (element).clien tHeight. But document is not an
element. Not all browsers support document.client Height.

>
javascript:aler t(document.clie ntHeight)
>
In a Mac: Opera 9.5x, FF2&3, Safari 3&4, Camino, IE5.23, NS9, iCab3 --
>

undefined.

document.client Height is not widely supported (actually browsers that
support it are deprecating its functionality) and it is recommended to
use document.body.c lientHeight which is supported in all browsers.

document.client Height, in fact, doesn't make any sense as document is
not an element and merely a placeholder for the DOM tree returned from
the underlying markup and is invisible to one's eyes. You don't have
heights for objects that are not even visible.

;) Cheers,
Arun

**Andrew Poulos** · Sep 15 '08, 01:25 PM

Re: document.client Height

Arun wrote:

On Sep 14, 5:53 pm, Jorge wrote:

>On Sep 14, 5:53 pm, dhtml wrote:

>>Most browsers support (element).clien tHeight. But document is not an
>>element. Not all browsers support document.client Height.

>javascript:ale rt(document.cli entHeight)
>>
>In a Mac: Opera 9.5x, FF2&3, Safari 3&4, Camino, IE5.23, NS9, iCab3 --
>>

>>undefined.

>
document.client Height is not widely supported (actually browsers that
support it are deprecating its functionality) and it is recommended to
use document.body.c lientHeight which is supported in all browsers.
>
document.client Height, in fact, doesn't make any sense as document is
not an element and merely a placeholder for the DOM tree returned from
the underlying markup and is invisible to one's eyes. You don't have
heights for objects that are not even visible.
>

Doesn't IE 6, in strict mode, use document.docume ntElement.clien tHeight?

Andrew Poulos

**Henry** · Sep 15 '08, 03:45 PM

Re: document.client Height

On Sep 15, 2:18 pm, Andrew Poulos wrote:

Arun wrote:

<snip>

>... and it is recommended to use document.body.c lientHeight
>which is supported in all browsers.

<snip>

Doesn't IE 6, in strict mode, use
document.docume ntElement.clien tHeight?

It would be better to call it "standards" , "CSS" or "CSS1Compat " mode
(the first being normal and the last the internal name
(document.compa tMode)) and its opposite something like "quirks" or
"BackCompat " mode. Referring to it as "strict" tends to encourage the
misconception that it has some relationship with the distinction
between "strict" and "transition al" in HTML (and when ECMAScript
introduces a "strict" mode (in the next version) there would be
additional confusion).

But yes, when (document.compa tMode == 'CSS1Compat') IE 6 client
dimensions are to be found on the documentElement not the body (and
the values read from the body element will be very wrong). But this is
not necessarily true of other browsers that expose a -
document.compat Mode - property.

**dhtml** · Sep 16 '08, 06:15 PM

Re: document.client Height

Arun wrote:

On Sep 14, 5:53 pm, Jorge wrote:

>On Sep 14, 5:53 pm, dhtml wrote:

>>Most browsers support (element).clien tHeight. But document is not an
>>element. Not all browsers support document.client Height.

>javascript:ale rt(document.cli entHeight)
>>
>In a Mac: Opera 9.5x, FF2&3, Safari 3&4, Camino, IE5.23, NS9, iCab3 --
>>

>>undefined.

>
document.client Height is not widely supported (actually browsers that
support it are deprecating its functionality) and it is recommended to
use document.body.c lientHeight which is supported in all browsers.
>

It was removed from Safari. Safari 2.0.4 had it. Not sure which other
browsers have it (probably some KHTML). Seems to be quite rare.

document.client Height, in fact, doesn't make any sense as document is
not an element and merely a placeholder for the DOM tree returned from
the underlying markup and is invisible to one's eyes. You don't have
heights for objects that are not even visible.
>

It could be argued that documentElement .clientHeight returning the
height of the viewport (sans horz scrollbar) makes less sense. It is
ambiguous and doesn't work that way in all browsers.

Should clientHeight return the cleintHeight of the element? That's what
recent past versions of Opera do. What should
documentElement .scrollHeight return? Should it return the scrollHeight
of the html element or the height of the viewport? What about
documentElement .clientTop, or offsetTop?

The viewport is not the documentElement . There's a lot of special
treatment given to the root node for functionality of the viewport. Even
body gets some special treatment, too (overflow, background, event
handlers).

Garrett

;) Cheers,
Arun
>

**dhtml** · Sep 16 '08, 08:05 PM

Re: document.client Height

dhtml wrote:

Arun wrote:

>On Sep 14, 5:53 pm, Jorge wrote:

>>On Sep 14, 5:53 pm, dhtml wrote:
>>>Most browsers support (element).clien tHeight. But document is not an
>>>element. Not all browsers support document.client Height.
>>javascript:al ert(document.cl ientHeight)
>>>
>>In a Mac: Opera 9.5x, FF2&3, Safari 3&4, Camino, IE5.23, NS9, iCab3 --
>>>
>>>undefined.

>>
>document.clien tHeight is not widely supported (actually browsers that
>support it are deprecating its functionality) and it is recommended to
>use document.body.c lientHeight which is supported in all browsers.
>>

>
It was removed from Safari. Safari 2.0.4 had it. Not sure which other
browsers have it (probably some KHTML). Seems to be quite rare.
>
>
>
>

>document.clien tHeight, in fact, doesn't make any sense as document is
>not an element and merely a placeholder for the DOM tree returned from
>the underlying markup and is invisible to one's eyes. You don't have
>heights for objects that are not even visible.
>>

>
>
It could be argued that documentElement .clientHeight returning the
height of the viewport (sans horz scrollbar) makes less sense. It is
ambiguous and doesn't work that way in all browsers.
>
Should clientHeight return the cleintHeight of the element? That's what
recent past versions of Opera do. What should
documentElement .scrollHeight return? Should it return the scrollHeight
of the html element or the height of the viewport?

(I meant "document's scrollable area").......^^ ^

What about

documentElement .clientTop, or offsetTop?
>
The viewport is not the documentElement . There's a lot of special
treatment given to the root node for functionality of the viewport. Even
body gets some special treatment, too (overflow, background, event
handlers).
>
Garrett
>

>;) Cheers,
>Arun
>>

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