Getting the height of an absolute div

Question

I'm trying to get the height of an absolute div, but am running into a problem. jQuery's .height() doesn't retrieve the correct hei

Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Is this what you want? http://jsfiddle.net/Y9Upp/7/ your selector should be #box instead of #boxheight ;)

Answer 2

You're grabbing the wrong element...

$('#boxHeight div').first().html($('#box').height());
                                 ----^----

http://jsfiddle.net/Y9Upp/6/