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jQuery get the rendered height of an element?

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.

Solution

  • 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!