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    Window.outerHeight

    SummaryEdit

    Window.outerHeight gets the height in pixels of the whole browser window. It represents the height of the whole browser window including sidebar (if expanded), window chrome and window resizing borders/handles.

    This property is read-only; it has no default value.

    SyntaxEdit

    outWindowHeight = window.outerHeight;

    On return, outWindowHeight contains the height of the outside of the window.

    NotesEdit

    To change the size of a window, see window.resizeBy() and window.resizeTo().

    To get the inner height of a window, i.e. the height of the page being displayed, see window.innerHeight.

    Graphical example

    The following figure shows the difference between outerHeight and innerHeight.

    innerHeight vs outerHeight illustration

    Browser compatibilityEdit

    Feature Chrome Firefox (Gecko) Internet Explorer Opera Safari
    Basic support 1 1.0 (1.7 or earlier) 9 9 3

    SpecificationEdit

    Specification Status Comment
    CSS Object Model (CSSOM) View Module
    The definition of 'Window.outerHeight' in that specification.    		 Working Draft

    See alsoEdit

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