How do I remove the height style from a DIV using jQuery?

Question

By default, a DIV\'s height is determined by its contents.

But, I override that and explicitly set a height with jQuery:

$(\'div#someDiv\').height(so         


        

Answer 1

you can try this:

$('div#someDiv').height('');

Answer 2

$('div#someDiv').css('height', '');

Answer 3

Thank guys for showing all those examples. I was still having trouble with my contact page on small media screens like below 480px after trying your examples. Bootstrap kept inserting height: auto.

Element Inspector / Devtools will show the height in:

element.style {

}

In my case I was seeing: section#contact.contact-container | 303 x 743 in the browser window.

So the following full-length works to eliminate the issue:

$('section#contact.contact-container').height('');

Answer 4

to remove the height:

$('div#someDiv').css('height', '');
$('div#someDiv').css('height', null);

like John pointed out, set height to auto:

$('div#someDiv').css('height', 'auto');

(checked with jQuery 1.4)

Answer 5

To reset the height of the div, just try

$("#someDiv").height('auto');

Answer 6

$('div#someDiv').height('auto');

I like using this, because it's symmetric with how you explicitly used .height(val) to set it in the first place, and works across browsers.