Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

HEIGHT, WIDTH — NN 2 IE 3 HTML 3.2

Synopsis

WIDTH=”pixels"

HEIGHT=”pixels"

Required

The size that a Java applet occupies in a document is governed by the HEIGHT and WIDTH attribute settings. Some browser versions might allow you to get away without assigning these attributes, letting the applet’s own user interface design determine the height and width of its visible rectangle. As with images, however, it is more efficient for the browser’s rendering engine when you explicitly specify the object’s dimensions. Make a habit of supplying these values for all applets, as you should for all images or other visible external objects.

Example

<APPLET CODE="ScriptableClock.class" WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=50>
</APPLET>

Value

Positive integer pixel values (optionally quoted). You cannot entirely hide an applet by setting values to zero, but you can reduce its height and width to one pixel in each dimension. If you want to hide an applet, do so with DHTML by setting its positioning display attribute to none.

Default

None.

Object Model Reference

IE

[window.]document.applets[i].height

[window.]document.appletName.height

[window.]document.applets[i].width

[window.]document.appletName.width