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Gecko DOM Reference

clientHeight

DHTML property that represents the inner height of an element. This includes possible padding but not scrollbar (if present, if rendered), not border nor margin. If the element has an horizontal scrollbar, then its height value is substracted from the css height property value and from the vertical css padding value of the element in the computation of the clientHeight value.

Syntax and values

var intElemClientHeight = document.getElementById(id_attribute_value).clientHeight;

intElemClientHeight is a variable storing an integer corresponding to the clientHeight pixel value of the element.
clientHeight is a read-only property.

Description

An element's clientHeight is a measurement which includes the element CSS height and the element vertical padding and, if rendered, substracting the height of horizontal scrollbar.

Example

Left Top Right Bottom margin-top margin-bottom border-top border-bottom

padding-top

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padding-bottom

Dimensions and borderlines of clientHeight

Specification

clientHeight is part of the MSIE's DHTML object model.
clientHeight is not part of any W3C specification or technical recommendation.

Notes

clientHeight is a property of the DHTML object model which was first introduced by MSIE. It represents the inner height of an element.

References

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