NEW 19283
Checking offsetHeight of an element in javascript affects overall height of the page? 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19283
Summary Checking offsetHeight of an element in javascript affects overall height of t...
Michael
Reported 2008-05-27 20:29:51 PDT
I'm not exactly sure what this bug is, but on the latest nightly build (#34153) the footer on my site jumps up when using the lightbox gallery on my site. I've pinpointed this to line 355 in the file lytebox.js: 'document.getElementById('caption').offsetHeight'. If I comment this out it doesn't happen anymore. This only happens with the new build of WebKit; Firefox, Opera, IE, and Safari 3.1.1 render it fine.
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Michael
Comment 1 2008-05-27 20:35:36 PDT
Screenshot: http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/2633/footerbugvp5.png (the yellow footer should be all the way at the bottom)
Michael
Comment 2 2008-05-27 20:37:20 PDT
Oops, here's the URL: http://m4cb0y.homeip.net/allegory/gallery1.php
Michael
Comment 3 2008-05-27 20:38:06 PDT
http://m4cb0y.homeip.net/allegory/images/gallery1.php * I wonder how many more mistakes I can make.
mitz
Comment 4 2008-05-27 22:01:25 PDT
I think this is related to the following behavior which is reproducible on the URL: if you resize the window along the vertical axis alone, being careful not to change its width, then the footer does not move down along with the bottom of the window.
Michael
Comment 5 2008-05-28 14:23:22 PDT
Here is where I got the code for my footer, what you described seems to happen there as well: http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/footerStickAlt/good_example_short.htm It also happens on most other "sticky" CSS footers I can find: http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/ http://www.lwis.net/profile/CSS/sticky-footer.html
Michael
Comment 6 2008-06-02 21:36:17 PDT
The offsetHeight problem seems to be fixed now, but there's still the same issue with those footers resizing.
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