How do you get the rendered height of an element?

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BuddyJoe picture BuddyJoe · Feb 8, 2009 · Viewed 619.8k times · Source

How do you get the rendered height of an element?

Let's say you have a <div> element with some content inside. This content inside is going to stretch the height of the <div>. How do you get the "rendered" height when you haven't explicitly set the height. Obviously, I tried: 

var h = document.getElementById('someDiv').style.height;

Is there a trick for doing this? I am using jQuery if that helps.

Answer

strager picture strager · Feb 8, 2009

Try one of:

var h = document.getElementById('someDiv').clientHeight;
var h = document.getElementById('someDiv').offsetHeight;
var h = document.getElementById('someDiv').scrollHeight;

clientHeight includes the height and vertical padding.

offsetHeight includes the height, vertical padding, and vertical borders.

scrollHeight includes the height of the contained document (would be greater than just height in case of scrolling), vertical padding, and vertical borders.

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