Full height of a html element (div) including border, padding and margin?

Question

I need the full height of a div, I\'m currently using

document.getElementById(\'measureTool\').offsetHeight

offsetHeig

Answer 1

qdev wrote a nice solution, however I think offsetHeight is faster and better supported than getBoundingClientRect(). I also used ES6 to reduce the code size.

/**
 * Returns the element height including margins
 * @param element - element
 * @returns {number}
 */
function outerHeight(element) {
    const height = element.offsetHeight,
        style = window.getComputedStyle(element)

    return ['top', 'bottom']
        .map(side => parseInt(style[`margin-${side}`]))
        .reduce((total, side) => total + side, height)
}