Element offsetHeight toujours "0"

Pourquoi je suis arriver Élément offsetHeight "0"? même élément de la hauteur d'origine n'est pas en montrant

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style>
/* Added for Menu    */
.navbar
{
list-style: none;`enter code here`
padding: 0 10px;
margin: 0;
float: left;
width: 980px;
background: url(images/navbar.gif) repeat-x;
}
.navbar ul
{
list-style: none;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0;
float: left;
width: 260px;
}
.navbar ul li
{
float:left;
position:relative;
z-index:1000;
margin:0px;
padding:0px;
}
.navbar ul li ul
{
display:none;
border:none;
width: 260px;
padding:0 0px 0px 0px;
}
.navbar ul li a
{
font-size: 12px;
float:left;
display:block;
line-height:3.1em;
padding:0 16px 0 16px;
text-decoration:none;
color:#FFF;
}
.navbar ul li:hover
{
width:auto;
}
.navbar ul li:hover a
{
background:url(images/navbar_subnav.png)  repeat-x scroll 0 0 transparent;          text-decoration:none;
}
.navbar ul li:hover ul
{
display:block;
position:absolute;
z-index:998;
top:0px;
margin-top:25px;
left:0;
}
.navbar ul li:hover ul li ul
{
background-position: center bottombottom;
cursor: pointer;
}
.navbar ul li:hover ul li a
{
display:block;
line-height:1.3em;
padding:4px 16px 4px 16px;
border-bottom:1px solid #205284;
border-left:1px solid #205284;
border-right:1px solid #205284;
border-top:1px solid #205284;
z-index: 10000;
width:200px;
}
.navbar ul li:hover ul li a:hover
{
background-color:#000;
text-decoration:underline;
color: #0099FF;
cursor: hand;
}
.navbar ul li a:hover ul
{
display:block;
position:absolute;
z-index: 998;
top:3.1em;
t\op:3.0em;
left:0;
marg\in-top:0.1em;
}
.navbar ul li a:hover ul li a
{
display:block;
height:1px;
line-height:1.3em;
padding:4px 16px 4px 16px;
background-color:#000;
font-weight:normal;
color:#FFF;
}
.navbar ul li a:hover ul li a ul
{
visibility:hidden;
height:0px;
width:0px;
position:absolute;
z-index: 997;
}
.navbar ul li a:hover ul li a:hover
{
background-color:#000;
text-decoration:underline;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="navbar">
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#">menu item 1</a>
<ul style="top:0px" >
<li style="width:288px;"><center><a href="#" onmouseover="movedown()" onmouseout="stopscroll()"><img src="images/menu-arrow-down.png" width="8" height="6"   alt="Down"></a></center></li>
<script> //<![CDATA[
var speed=2
iens6=document.all||document.getElementById
ns4=document.layers
if (iens6){
document.write('<div id="container" style="position:relative;width:310px;height:165px;overflow:hidden;border:0px solid #205284">')
document.write('<div id="content" style="position:absolute;width:290px;left:0px;top:-1px;">')
}
//]]></script>
<ilayer name="nscontainer" width="190">
<layer name="nscontent" width="290" height="155" visibility="hidden">
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu item 1  menu item 1</a></li>
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu item 2  menu item 1</a></li>                    <li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu item 3</a></li>
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu item 1</a></li>
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu item 1</a></li>
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu item 2</a></li>              
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu item 3</a></li>
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu item 1</a></li>
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu </a></li>
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu </a></li>
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu </a></li>
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu </a></li>              
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu </a></li>
<li style="top:-1px;"><a href="#">sub menu</a></li>
</layer>
</ilayer>
<script> //<![CDATA[
if (iens6)
{
document.write('</div></div>')
var crossobj=document.getElementById? document.getElementById('content') : document.all.content
//alert("document.getElementById('content').offsetHeight :"+ document.getElementById('content').offsetHeight);
alert("crossobj.prototype.outerHeight" + crossobj.prototype.outerHeight);
var contentheight=crossobj.offsetHeight
//var contentheight=document.getElementById('content').style.height;
//alert("ContentHeight :"+contentheight);
}
else if (ns4)
{
var crossobj=document.nscontainer.document.nscontent
var contentheight=crossobj.clip.height
}
function movedown(){
if (window.moveupvar) clearTimeout(moveupvar)
{
if (iens6&&parseInt(crossobj.style.top)>=(contentheight*(-1)+100))
{
crossobj.style.top=parseInt(crossobj.style.top)-speed+"px"
}
else if(ns4&&crossobj.top>=(contentheight*(-1)+100))
{
crossobj.top-=speed
}
/*else
{
crossobj.style.top=parseInt(crossobj.style.top)-speed+"px"
}*/
}
movedownvar=setTimeout("movedown()",20)
}
function moveup()
{
if (window.movedownvar) clearTimeout(movedownvar)
{
if (iens6&&parseInt(crossobj.style.top)<=0)
{
crossobj.style.top=parseInt(crossobj.style.top)+speed+"px"
}
else if (ns4&&crossobj.top<=0)
{
crossobj.top+=speed
}
moveupvar=setTimeout("moveup()",20)
}
}
function getcontent_height()
{
if (iens6)
{
//alert("getcontent_height : "+document.getElementById("content").style.height);
//contentheight=document.getElementById("content").style.height;
contentheight=crossobj.offsetHeight
}
else if (ns4)
{
document.nscontainer.document.nscontent.visibility="show"
}
}
window.onload=getcontent_height;
//]]></script>
<li><center><a href="#" onmouseover="moveup()" onmouseout="stopscroll()"><img src="images/menu-arrow-down.png" width="8" height="6" alt="Down"></a> </center></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul> 
</div>    
</body>
</html>

source d'informationauteur kumarjcet