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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.

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.

  • javascript
  • jquery
  • css
  • height
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  • see this answer stackoverflow.com/questions/19581307/… – KarSho Commented Oct 25, 2013 at 5:22
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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 top/bottom borders.

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

It should just be

$('#someDiv').height();

with jQuery. This retrieves the height of the first item in the wrapped set as a number.

Trying to use

.style.height

only works if you have set the property in the first place. Not very useful!

NON JQUERY since there were a bunch of links using elem.style.height in the top of these answers...

INNER HEIGHT:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element.clientHeight 

document.getElementById(id_attribute_value).clientHeight;

OUTER HEIGHT:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement.offsetHeight

document.getElementById(id_attribute_value).offsetHeight;

Or one of my favorite references: http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

I use this to get the height of an element (returns float):

document.getElementById('someDiv').getBoundingClientRect().height

It also works when you use the virtual DOM. I use it in Vue like this:

this.$refs['some-ref'].getBoundingClientRect().height

For a Vue component:

this.$refs['some-ref'].$el.getBoundingClientRect().height

You can use .outerHeight() for this purpose.

It will give you full rendered height of the element. Also, you don't need to set any css-height of the element. For precaution you can keep its height auto so it can be rendered as per content's height.

//if you need height of div excluding margin/padding/border
$('#someDiv').height();

//if you need height of div with padding but without border + margin
$('#someDiv').innerHeight();

// if you need height of div including padding and border
$('#someDiv').outerHeight();

//and at last for including border + margin + padding, can use
$('#someDiv').outerHeight(true);

For a clear view of these function you can go for jQuery's site or a detailed post here.

it will clear the difference between .height() / innerHeight() / outerHeight()

style = window.getComputedStyle(your_element);

then simply: style.height

Definitely use 

$('#someDiv').height()   // to read it

or

$('#someDiv').height(newHeight)  // to set it

I'm posting this as an additional answer because theres a couple important things I just learnt.

I almost fell into the trap just now of using offsetHeight. This is what happened :

  • I used the good old trick of using a debugger to 'watch' what properties my element has
  • I saw which one has a value around the value I was expecting
  • It was offsetHeight - so I used that.
  • Then i realized it didnt work with a hidden DIV
  • I tried hiding after calculating maxHeight but that looked clumsy - got in a mess.
  • I did a search - discovered jQuery.height() - and used it
  • found out height() works even on hidden elements
  • just for fun I checked the jQuery implementation of height/width

Here's just a portion of it :

Math.max(
Math.max(document.body["scroll" + name], document.documentElement["scroll" + name]),
Math.max(document.body["offset" + name], document.documentElement["offset" + name])
)

Yup it looks at BOTH scroll and offset. If that fails it looks even further, taking into account browser and css compatibility issues. In other words STUFF I DONT CARE ABOUT - or want to.

But I dont have to. Thanks jQuery!

Moral of the story : if jQuery has a method for something its probably for a good reason, likely related to compatibilty.

If you haven't read through the jQuery list of methods recently I suggest you take a look.

I think the best way to do this in 2020 is to use vanilla js and getBoundingClientRect().height;

Here's an example

let div = document.querySelector('div');
let divHeight = div.getBoundingClientRect().height;

console.log(`Div Height: ${divHeight}`);
<div>
  How high am I? 

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