Posted by Michael Winter on 12/22/66 11:24

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On 20/08/2005 22:47, Toby Inkster wrote:

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> Alternatively, try replacing the proprietary "document.documentElement"
> with "document.body", which is overall better supported.

The documentElement property isn't proprietary. It's defined in the W3C DOM.

documentElement of type Element, readonly
This is a convenience attribute that allows direct access to the
child node that is the root element of the document. For HTML
documents, this is the element with the tagName "HTML".

-- DOM 2 Core, 1.2 - Fundamental interfaces, Document interface

When in "Standards" mode, IE treats the HTML element as the canvas (not
BODY), so various dimension-related properties should be read from there.

Mike

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