5964 – getting width/height on <embed>, <iframe>, <object> and <video>

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Bug 5964 - getting width/height on <embed>, <iframe>, <object> and <video>

Summary: getting width/height on <embed>, <iframe>, <object> and <video>

Status:	CLOSED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	HTML WG
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact:	HTML WG Bugzilla archive list

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Reported:	2008-08-13 15:33 UTC by Simon Pieters
Modified:	2010-10-04 13:58 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Simon Pieters 2008-08-13 15:33:54 UTC

In Firefox, Opera, Safari and IE, getting the width and height DOM attributes on <embed>, <iframe> and <object> when the content attributes are absent return the empty string. The spec says it should be 0.

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C!DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0D%0A%3Cstyle%3Eembed%2C%20object%2C%20iframe%20%7B%20width%3A123px%3B%20height%3A45px%3B%20%7D%3C%2Fstyle%3E%0D%0A%3Cscript%3E%0D%0Aonload%3Dfunction()%7B%0D%0Avar%20e%20%3D%20document.body.firstChild%3B%0D%0Ado%20%7B%0D%0Aw(e.nodeName%20%2B%20'%3A%20'%20%2B%20e.width%20%2B%20'%2C%20'%20%2B%20e.height)%0D%0A%7D%20while%20(e%20%3D%20e.nextSibling)%3B%0D%0A%7D%0D%0A%3C%2Fscript%3E%0D%0A%3Cembed%3E%3Cobject%3E%3C%2Fobject%3E%3Ciframe%3E%3C%2Fiframe%3E%3Cimg%3E%3Cvideo%3E%3C%2Fvideo%3E

Perhaps the spec should require this and make <video> consistent with the other 3?

Comment 1 Olivier Gendrin 2008-08-13 16:14:57 UTC

I do not understand why <img> is not related to this problem.