In addition to what MorningZ has said, see the vjustify plugin: http://michael.futreal.com/jquery/vjustify
The nugget there is to use the offsetHeight property, which factors-in margins, padding, etc. **--** Steve On Aug 27, 7:25 am, james_fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hoepfully a quick question. I'm trying to loop through and grab the > heights of multiple divs but I'm having a few problems. The height() > and css('height') functions dont seem to be working. > > Each of the boxes are different heights and I want to use JS to get > the heighest box and set all the boxes to the same height. > > HTML: > > <div class='box'>content...</div> > <div class='box'>content...</div> > <div class='box'>content...</div> > > JS: > > $('.box').each(function(){ > console.log( this.height() ); // throws "this.height is not a > function" > > }); > > // this works for one box > $('box').height(); > > Any ideas? > > Regards, > > James