Hidden div height (changing my advice)

Question

Ok, I was going to answer someone\'s question here on SO about why their script wasn\'t working. They loaded content into a hidden div, then got the height so they could ani

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem with getting hidden element width, so I wrote this plugin call jQuery Actual to fix it. Instead of using

$('#some-element').height();

use

$('#some-element').actual('height');

will give you the right value for hidden element or element has a hidden parent.

You can also use

// get hidden element actaul width
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'width' );

// get hidden element actaul innerWidth
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'innerWidth' );

// get hidden element actaul outerWidth
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'outerWidth' );

// get hidden element actaul height
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'height' );

// get hidden element actaul innerHeight
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'innerHeight' );

// get hidden element actaul outerHeight
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'outerHeight' );

Full documentation please see here. There is also a demo include in the page.

Hope this help :)