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

I found this to work well:

$(window).load(function() {
var imageHeight = $(".image-box img").height();
$(".image-box img").parent().css('height', imageHeight);
});

$(window).resize(function() {
var imageHeight2 = $(".image-box img").height();
$(".image-box img").parent().css('height', imageHeight2);
}); 

Where ".image-box" is the container for your images.

I also added this to my CSS for responsiveness:

.image-box img{
max-width: 100%;
height:auto !important;

}