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Discussion on: How to animate an auto-height element

 
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Murphy Randle

Right, so you can't use getBoundingClientRect to get the size of the child container when the parent has display: none?. So you have to first remove display:none, then measure, then animate?

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Manuel Sommerhalder • Edited

Exactly, all getBoundingClientRect properties would be 0 when the parent has display: none.