Comments on: Managing Internet Explorer, JavaScript, and client and offset values returning zero http://www.tommcfarlin.com/2008/06/26/managing-internet-explorer-javascript-and-client-and-offset-values-returning-zero/ assorted development tomfoolery Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:36:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Thanks http://www.tommcfarlin.com/2008/06/26/managing-internet-explorer-javascript-and-client-and-offset-values-returning-zero/#comment-88 Thanks Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:28:52 +0000 http://www.tommcfarlin.com/?p=40#comment-88 Wow, definitely one of the nastier bugs IE has to offer. In my case, the JS was in an iframe from a different domain than the parent document. It seems the problem was actually with the parent document readyState, which I couldn't query (methinks). Finally, I simply queried the value (offsetHeight) directly. Ugly hack, but it's holding, so far. Thank you for taking the time to post a solution for this infuriatingly obscure bug. Wow, definitely one of the nastier bugs IE has to offer.

In my case, the JS was in an iframe from a different domain than the parent document. It seems the problem was actually with the parent document readyState, which I couldn’t query (methinks).

Finally, I simply queried the value (offsetHeight) directly. Ugly hack, but it’s holding, so far.

Thank you for taking the time to post a solution for this infuriatingly obscure bug.

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