reset Height to nothing

[cgishack]

Hello,

I hit a small bump in my code.

How can I reset a height property back to nothing ?

if my div was..

<div id="test" stye="height:550px; border:1px solid #000;"> some text 550 px long...</div>

I tryied setting .height = "";
But its not working in IE6

Any ideas ?

Drew

[scragar]

your missing a closing quote on that ID :P

document.getElementById("test").style.height = '0px'; 

?

edit: quote not bracket. silly me.

[cgishack]

Ahh.. sorry. That was me just typing the example. The code had the correct syntax.

I think I solved my problem though.

element.height =""; does reset the div to nothing....

It may have been just a browser cache issue.

Thanks for the reply though.

Drew

[toicontien]

You can always set the height to auto.

[cgishack]

Doh!

true.. i think it was just one of those days..

Thanks!

Drew

[Kor]

You can also reset the height to null

document.getElementById("test").style.height = null;

[scragar]

not recomended because of the way some less common browsers handle that(turning null into a string 'null' before assigning it).

[Kor]

not recomended because of the way some less common browsers handle that(turning null into a string 'null' before assigning it).

Really? I would not have imagined that... I guess those browsers have a bug. Javascript should permit a null value in any kind of assignment... Which browsers? I am just curious.

[scragar]

I have never come across it myself, it was documented somewhere(although I cannot find it any more)...

[Kor]

ok, never mind... Anyway, you are right. A stringed value should be safer in that case. I was just remembered the null possibility...