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DOM:window.innerHeight

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[edit] Summary

Height of the browser window viewport including, if rendered, the horizontal scrollbar.

[edit] Syntax

var intViewportHeight = window.innerHeight;

[edit] Value

intViewportHeight stores the window.innerHeight property value.

The window.innerHeight property is read-only; it has no default value. window.innerHeight property stores an integer representing a number of pixels.

[edit] Notes

The innerHeight property will be supported in any window object like a window, a frame, a frameset or a secondary window.

[edit] Example

Assuming a frameset
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var intFrameHeight = window.innerHeight; // or
var intFrameHeight = self.innerHeight; /* will return the height of the 
frame viewport within the frameset */
var intFramesetHeight = parent.innerHeight; /* will return the height of 
the viewport of the closest frameset */
var intOuterFramesetHeight = top.innerHeight; /* will return the height 
of the viewport of the outermost frameset */

xxx To do: link to an interactive demo here xxx

See also window.innerWidth, window.outerHeight and window.outerWidth.

[edit] Graphical example

innerHeight vs outerHeight illustration

[edit] Standards information

DOM Level 0. Not part of any W3C technical specification or recommendation.