hi we have just found out the issue.
Let's say you have <div id="div"> <p>bla</p> </div> Like this, $('#div').outerHeigth(true) won't care about the <p> margin. In fact, in just care about the row content If you switch to <div id="div" style="display: visible"> <p>bla</p> </div> then $('#div').outerHeigth(true) will include the margin of the div I can just guess the corresponding rules... ++ On Aug 5, 5:39 pm, "Cesar Sanz" <the.email.tr...@gmail.com> wrote: > $("div").height() ??? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ZedroS" <zedros.schwa...@gmail.com> > To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 5:02 AM > Subject: [jQuery] getting the height of some div (which contains p having > > some margin defined) > > > Hi > > > I would like to get the height of a div. This div contains other > > markups tag like some paragraph. > > > However, I don't manage to get the height of this div if some > > paragraphs inside of it have some margin defined, even when using > > outerHeight(true)... > > > It looks like I'm missing something, can someone help me ? > > > thanks in advance > > > ++ > > zedros > > > ps : a test case (simpel html file wit the required javascript) can be > > found there : > >http://www.2shared.com/file/7008972/8565e522/test2.html > >http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/124239/test2-html.html