Retrieves the height of the object including padding, but not including margin, border, or scroll bar.

Syntax

HTML	N/A
Scripting	[ iHeight = ] object.clientHeight

Possible Values

iHeight

Integer that receives the height of the object, in pixels.

The property is read-only. The property has no default value.

Example

This example shows how the clientHeight property and the offsetHeight property measure document height differently. The height of the div is set to 100, and this is the value retrieved by the offsetHeight property, not the clientHeight property.

<div id="oDiv" style="overflow: scroll; width: 200px; height: 100px">
    . . . </div>
<button onclick="alert(oDiv.clientHeight)">client height</button>
<button onclick="alert(oDiv.offsetHeight)">offset heightY</button>

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Standards Information

There is no public standard that applies to this property.

Applies To

A, ADDRESS, APPLET, B, BDO, BIG, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, BUTTON, CAPTION, CENTER, CITE, CODE, COL, COLGROUP, CUSTOM, DD, DFN, DIR, DIV, DL, DT, EM, EMBED, FIELDSET, FORM, hn, HTML, I, IMG, INPUT type=button, INPUT type=checkbox, INPUT type=file, INPUT type=image, INPUT type=password, INPUT type=radio, INPUT type=reset, INPUT type=submit, INPUT type=text, ISINDEX, KBD, LABEL, LEGEND, LI, LISTING, MARQUEE, MENU, META, NOBR, OBJECT, OL, OPTION, P, PLAINTEXT, PRE, S, SAMP, SCRIPT, SELECT, SMALL, SPAN, STRIKE, STRONG, SUB, SUP, TABLE, TBODY, TD, TEXTAREA, TFOOT, TH, THEAD, TR, TT, U, UL, VAR, XMP, Element Constructor

See Also

Measuring Element Dimension and Location