object.style.height problem :/

Okay, heres the situation.. I'm trying to access the height value of a DIV element in IE5, via alert(document.all.body.style.height); from an onload.. I get an empty alert box, ie (I think ) it returns "", which is not null because usually "undefined" is returned I think.

body = name of the DIV which is the body of my page. Also have head / foot DIV elements.

Whats weird is that when I access head.style.height it returns "97px" which is fine. <shrug>

I'm trying to access the height of the body so that I can calculate the required top for my foot DIV element to go underneath it.. but seeing as IE is not being responsive I think I might have to merge the footer into the body which kind of defeats the purpose .

The body DIV element consists of 3 div elements themselves which each contain a table of differing hieght. Could this possibly be a factor? (The plan is to link the code from the table via include in PHP so I change the text in the body without affecting the layout).

Any ideas?
Rgds, Ravikesh.

I've always been under the impression that the body does not have a height.

(On the other hand, I didn't think that head had a height either.)

Also, remember that Netscape does not support the style tag to the same extent as IE. You may have problems with cross browser compatibility.

Russ

my guess would be that you cannot name a DIV 'body' did you try using a different name for ID?