On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Michal <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:33 AM, ryan <[email protected]> wrote: >> The CSS works fine when you can set that in advance... but this cant. >> I'm wrapping the textarea in a div using javascript, so need to be >> able to get the width through javascript to set it to... which is why >> i need to find the % width. > > But to answer you question. you could access the JS style object directly: > > width = myElement.style.width; > > This seems to work in Firefox, but I'm unsure about other browsers. > > Michal. >
I've just found: this only works if you set the style directly in the html tag using the style attribute (which I did in my test). But this is not a good way of doing things! Michal.
