Ayodele Smith - Jackson

Greetings, I've looked through your other emails, and I didn't offhand see
anything that fit my problem exactly, I did try a couple things and didn't
get the results I wanted. Perhaps you can help me clarify.

To explain, I have a website the uses a series of php functions to put
itself together, so that when we want to modify, headers and footers and the
sidebar we only have to modify one document. So most of the internal pages
look something like this

<?php whole_top($bg); ?>
   <div id="contentlayer">
     <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
       <tr>
         <td align="left">
           BLAH BLAH BLAH
         </td>
       </tr>
     </table>
     </div>
<?php content($bg); ?>
<?php whole_bottom($bg); ?>

There is some php before that to determine $bg but my problem is that the
content varies in length on each page. On one page I have it bringing in
dynamic content from a text file using another function. Now to go more into
depth, our website uses transparency. We have the topper and sides and then
in a table we have 2 div tags, one div tag is the contentlayer above set to
z-index: 3 and the second is the content($bg) inside that function it
displays a div with a transparent background set to z-index: 0 with absolute
positioning called fadehunt and fadefita Now in Firefox I am able to do

var contentheight = document.getElementById('contentlayer').clientHeight;
var contentwidth = document.getElementById('contentlayer').clientWidth;
document.getElementById('fadehunt').style.height = contentheight - 20;
document.getElementById('fadehunt').style.width = contentwidth;
I do this at the bottom of the page after the <?php content($bg); ?>

But I cannot get the proper width and height values in Internet Explorer

I've tried
document.getElementById('contentlayer').innerHTML;
document.getElementById('contentlayer').offsetParent;
document.getElementById('contentlayer').offsetLeft;
document.all['contentlayer'].offsetHeight;
window.pageXOffset;
document.body.scrollLeft;
document.documentElement.scrollLeft;
window.offsetLeft;
document.body.offsetLeft;
document.documentElement.offsetLeft;

I tried using your link location script findPosition( oLink ) to find the
position inside of the javascript;
Most of these either come up as 0 or undefined, perhaps I am using them
wrong, I am calling all of these after the contentlayer has been filled.
maybe you can help.

Ayo

I am a contract web designer and though I have tried and tried i cannot get
a piece of javascript to execute properly.
Let me explain. I have a page with some content on the top and bottom and in
the middle inside of a table I have an iframe which points to a shopping
cart which is in the same domain just in a different directory
"/catalog/index.php"

On the parent page I have a function
function shea_height(height) {
           if (document.getElementById('myframe'))
               document.getElementById('myframe').height = height + 10;
       if (document.frames){
           var know = document.frames("myframe").document.body.scrollHeight;
           document.getElementById('myframe').height = know;
       }
}



and at the bottom of the child/internal pages/internal iframes is


var contentheight;
if (document.getElementById('content').clientHeight){
   contentheight = document.getElementById('content').clientHeight;
   window.parent.shea_height(contentheight);
}

I do not have problems with the first page /catalog/index.php in any
browser, since the javascript doesn't run until the bottom of the page it
reads correctly as I have read in your previous emails etc.
But when I click on another page inside the iframe I get Error: uncaught
exception: Permission denied to get property Window.shea_height

the other pages are located again on the same server they are
"/catalog/login.php"
"/catalog/product_reviews_info.php"
etc etc

Why am i getting that exception?
Am I only allowed to call that function once?
Do I need to reload the entire page and iframe?
or once the page is loaded am I not allowed to call that parent function

Thanks for the help ahead of time,
Ayo

Hello again,
   I wrote you about the permission denied to get property, I can show you a
sample, if you have time at http://www.example.com/test.html


Thank you,
Ayodele

thank you very very much!
I thought my code was wrong or something but that resizing iframe works beautifully now.
Is there anything I can do to compensate you for the time and energy you spent helping me?

Ayo