height(): find the height of the window and document. : height « jQuery « JavaScript Tutorial

<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function(){
        
                function showHeight(ele, h) {
                  alert( h + "px.");
                }
                $("p").click(function () { 
                  showHeight("paragraph", $("p").height()); 
                });


        });
    </script>

  </head>
  <body>
    <body>
         <p>Hello</p><p>Paragraph</p>
                 
    </body>
</html>

30.48.height
	30.48.1.	Get document height
	30.48.2.	Get tag height
	30.48.3.	Set height to
	30.48.4.	Window height
	30.48.5.	height(): find the height of the window and document.
	30.48.6.	height(val): If no explicit unit was specified (like "em" or "%") then "px" is concatenated to the value.