How to get the height of a body element

Question

Here the total height of all

\'s are 900 pixels, but the jQuery function returns the height of the body as 577 pixels. (If I remove the body CSS, it\

Answer 1

We were trying to avoid using the IE specific

$window[0].document.body.clientHeight 

And found that the following jQuery will not consistently yield the same value but eventually does at some point in our page load scenario which worked for us and maintained cross-browser support:

$(document).height()