Padding and borders are added to the width. Is that the difference you are seeing?
-Hector On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:16 AM, nmiddleweek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > hello, > > What is the best way to work out the real width of an object? > > I'm toggling the display:inline/none of a DIV and an INPUT field so > one or the other is displayed but I've just check ed the visual > appearance of the two objects and the DIV is not as wide. This will > likely cause my interface to shuffle a little. it's a not a massive > issue but is there a way of preventing this? > > I'm guessing that the INPUT field will also be rendered slightly > differently on different browsers so not sure the best approach to > solve it. > > > Someone whispered the Dimensions plugin to me the other day but I > can't remember why :) > > > Cheers, > N > >