Why does jQuery's height() automatically rounds up the value?

Question

I wanted to calculate the computed height of a list. On IE, these two give different results. On Chrome, the value seems to be always on integer, so I do not get this problem.

Answer 1

This is a known bug in jQuery, which shouldn't round height and width values.

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/9628

Updated with @CookieMonster's comment

The current workaround is to use .getBoundingClientRect().height, which is cross browser and doesn't round values.

document.getElementById("fruits").getBoundingClientRect().height