window height and document height…

[sadunaresh]

as I found on web $(window).height() gives unit less pixel value of browser view-port height and, $(document).height() gives unit less pixel value of actual document height

and if document height is less than window height then $(document).height() will result in window height..

in my case I have a document which is 36px of height..

when I check $(window).height(), $(document).height() are giving same result as 36..

can someone explain what’s wrong with my browser..?

[sadunaresh]

I worked it out…

I had following doctype

when I change it to

window height as well as document heights are resulting in 895… why so?

[TheDoc]

Weird that changing the doctype would change the value. I’m not sure I understand that one!

[Eric Gregoire]

The most I know is that different doctypes can cause differences in how the page is rendered. Invalid doctypes can also cause browsers to enter quirks mode (which I don’t think is the case here because it looks correct to me) which could also cause all sorts of weird behavior.

I would really love to find out the reason for this; it’s just so bizarre. “This week on Unsolved MyCSSteries!”

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