Why would jquery return 0 for an offsetHeight when firebug says it's 34?

Question

So I have a div whose content is generated at runtime it initially has no height associated with it. When it\'s generated according to firebug and from what I can alert wit

Answer 1

I just found an issue where I was getting the offsetHeight of an element when the doc was ready but it was in a container that was hidden.

It resulted in a offsetHeight value of 0 but firebug said it had a height of 32.