<textarea> scrollHeight is comming zero on body load

Question

Hi

I wanted to get <textarea> scrollHeight on body load using jquery. It's always getting zero. I want actual height of textarea on body load.

If it's not possible to get scrollheight on body load, is ther any way to get actual height rather than height().

Please suggest if you have any reference.

Thanks

-Pravin

Answer 1

You just want the height? On load, it shouldn't be scrolled at all...

$('textarea').height();

Though textarea should be replaced by the #id selector.

Scrollheight:

var myTA = $('#myTextArea');
alert(myTA[0].scrollHeight);

You can test this here: http://jsfiddle.net/Lg5Ne/

Answer 2

if you want the scroll height of the textarea do something like

$('textarea#text').get(0).scrollHeight

or

just the height of textarea

 $('textarea#text').css('height') // in px