Getting height of Text element

[culshaja]

Hi,

I am wanting to get the height of a textbox in a form. I want to show a layer directly underneath it, and I can get the top position of the control but I can't add the height to it as they are no numbers they are straings as they contain non-numeric characters.

Could anyone shed some light on how I could do this?

Thanks,

James James Culshaw
james@miniaturereview.co.uk

http://www.miniaturereview.co.uk

http://www.caninerescue.co.uk

 

[Supra]

I'm not quite clear on what you wanted, but the following code will resize the layer to be equal to the textbox and then place the layer directly underneath the text box. If you weren't looking for that, you can still take and use what you need from the code.

<script>
<!--
onload = placeObj;

function placeObj() {
	obj.style.width = box.offsetWidth;
	obj.style.height = box.offsetHeight;
	obj.style.left = box.offsetLeft;
	obj.style.top = box.offsetTop;
}
//-->
</script>

<div id=&quot;obj&quot; style=&quot;position:absolute;background-color:Black&quot;></div>
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;box&quot; style=&quot;position:absolute&quot;>