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height property

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Specifies the height of the visible area for an element.

This property has effect only on block-level elements or on elements with absolute or fixed position. The overflowing content can be manipulated by the overflow property.

The height property contains the height of the visible content with the horizontal scrollbar, but without the padding, border and the margin.

Use the width property to set the width of the visible area for an element.
You can specify a range for the size of an element with the min-width, min-height, max-width and max-height properties.
Use the left, top, right and bottom properties to specify the position for an 'absolute', 'fixed', or 'relative' positioned element.

JavaScript page for this property: height. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

One of the following values:

auto

Default. The height depends on the values of other properties.

height in non-negative length

The height of the element in length units. For the supported length units, see the length page.

height in non-negative percentage

The height of the element is the specified percentage of the height of parent element.

inherit

Takes the value of this property from the computed style of the parent element.

Default: auto.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the height property:

<head>
    <style>
        .example {
            background-color: #E9E9E9;
            width: 300px;
            height: 200px;
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="example">The height is 200px</div>
</body>