Using Javascript or HTML, how to get the height and width of a div or other element?

Question

I\'ve been trying for a while now to \'get\' the height and width of a div on my webpage. I\'ve tried many things, some are:

document.getElementById(\"header\").         


        

Answer 1

example -

var divheight = document.getElementById('divId').offsetHeight;

refer this -

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/dom_obj_all.asp