Question

Currently i am setting absolute height values. But sometimes i am being have to set a lot higher than required because of dynamic pages. Is it possible to get minimum required height of div ? i mean the height value which will show all the elements like height auto but no empty spaces will left.
I can’t set height auto because it causes too much mess. I tried and failed.

So jquery will read the div and calculate minimum required height value for displaying all elements. Is this possible ?

Thank you.

Answer 1

As Clive said, there is usually no reason to do this. However, if you need to get height of all inside elements, you can use something like this:

var height = 0;
$.each($("your_div").children(), function(i,v) {
    height += $(v).outerHeight(true);
});
console.log(height);

Function outerHeight(true) counts height of the element including border and margin. See http://api.jquery.com/outerHeight/ for details.