5May/070
Javascript Tip Of The Day: “When Is A Width Not A Width?”
This is a bit of a gotcha for young players in the Javascript game. You have a web page with a DIV which you fill dynamically with, let's say, 5 IMG elements. How do you get the width of the DIV? You can try "document.getElementById('divId').width" but it will do you no good. The answer: use "document.getElementById('divId').offsetWidth". Here's a handy guide when it comes to DHTML element position and locations.