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

Are you sure it's not a Heisenbug? If you are setting the height somewhere programmatically and then trying to read it soon later, there is a chance DOM would not have updated.