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How do I get the height of a div's full content with jQuery?

Asked 2011-07-28T01:46:10.800
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I am trying to create my own scroll bars. I have tried most of the jquery scrollbar plugins and none of them seem to work for me, so I decided to create my own. I have an overflow area with scrollable content. I can get the scrollbar to work if I am able to figure out the height of the scrollable content area. I have tried .scrollHeight() and the browser doesn't even recognize it. The overflow area has a fixed position.

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Element.scrollHeight is a property, not a function, as noted here. As noted here, the scrollHeight property is only supported after IE8. If you need it to work before that, temporarily set the CSS overflow and height to auto, which will cause the div to take the maximum height it needs. Then get the height, and change the properties back to what they were before.

answered 2011-07-28T01:55:41.377

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