On Friday, 13 May 2011 01:03:53 UTC-3, Joel Dart wrote:
>
> The problem is not with the rendering in those browsers. The problem is
> that the return value of window.getComputedStyle(test,
> null).getPropertyValue("margin-left") is “0px” which is clearly not the used
> value for margin-left.
>
>
According to the CSS 2.1 spec, a computed value of 'auto' for
'margin-left'<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#propdef-margin-left>or
'margin-right'
<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#propdef-margin-right>becomes a used value
of '0':
<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#Computing_widths_and_margins>
>
>
> Also, to be clear, I wasn’t looking for a workaround for this issue but
> just looking for a second opinion if this is a bug that happens to be
> implemented cross most of the major browsers. It was the consistency that
> made me feel like I must be incorrect.
>
>
>
It doesn't seem to be a bug.
Also, strictly for getting dimensions I’ve had good success with
> getBoundingClientRect<https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM/Element.getBoundingClientRect>,
>
> but that’s another discussion :-]
>
There are some problems with this getBoundingClientRect() method, according
to:
<http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_cssom.html>
Cheers,
Joao Rodrigues
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