Using jQuery to adjust a parent element's height to match it's visible child's height

Question

I\'ve got a slideshow running in a container and need the height of the container to match the visible slide\'s height. Unfortunately the images are absolutely positioned and th

Answer 1

Instead of running before or after the slideshows callback, this scales the image as the window resizes. Perfect!

$(window).resize(function() {
    $('#main').css('height',$('img.slide:visible').height());
});