HTMLImageElement: height property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

Theheight property of theHTMLImageElement interface indicates the height at which the image is drawn, inCSS pixels, if the image is being drawn or rendered to any visual medium such as a screen or printer. Otherwise, it's the natural, pixel density-corrected height of the image.

Value

An integer value indicating the height of the image. The way the height is defined depends on whether the image is being rendered to a visual medium or not.

If the image is being rendered to a visual medium such as a screen or printer, the height is expressed inCSS pixels.
Otherwise, the image's height is represented using its natural (intrinsic) height, adjusted for the display density as indicated bynaturalHeight.

Examples

In this example, two different sizes are provided for an image of a clock using thesrcset attribute. One is 200px wide and the other is 400px wide. Further, thesizes attribute is provided to specify the width at which the image should be drawn given the viewport's width.

HTML

For viewports up to 400px wide, the image is drawn at a width of 200px. Otherwise, it's drawn at 400px.

html

<p>Image height: <span>?</span>px (resize to update)</p><img  src="/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/img/clock-demo-200px.png"  alt="Clock"  srcset="    /en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/img/clock-demo-200px.png 200w,    /en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/img/clock-demo-400px.png 400w  "  sizes="(width <= 400px) 200px, 300px" />

JavaScript

The JavaScript code looks at theheight to determine the height of the image given the width at which it's currently drawn.

const clockImage = document.querySelector("img");let output = document.querySelector(".size");const updateHeight = () => {  output.innerText = clockImage.height;};updateHeight();window.addEventListener("resize", updateHeight);