Get the real width and height of an image with JavaScript? (in Safari/Chrome)

Webkit browsers set the height and width property after the image is loaded. Instead of using timeouts, I'd recommend using an image's onload event. Here's a quick example:

var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
$("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
    .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
    .load(function() {
        pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
        pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
    });

To avoid any of the effects CSS might have on the image's dimensions, the code above makes an in memory copy of the image. This is a very clever solution suggested by FDisk.

You can also use the naturalHeight and naturalWidth HTML5 attributes.

There's a lot of discussion in the accepted answer about a problem where the onload event doesn't fire if an image is loaded from the WebKit cache.

In my case, onload fires for cached images, but the height and width are still 0. A simple setTimeout resolved the issue for me:

$("img").one("load", function(){
    var img = this;
    setTimeout(function(){
        // do something based on img.width and/or img.height
    }, 0);
});

I can't speak as to why the onload event is firing even when the image is loaded from the cache (improvement of jQuery 1.4/1.5?) — but if you are still experiencing this problem, maybe a combination of my answer and the var src = img.src; img.src = ""; img.src = src; technique will work.

(Note that for my purposes, I'm not concerned about pre-defined dimensions, either in the image's attributes or CSS styles — but you might want to remove those, as per Xavi's answer. Or clone the image.)

The root problem is that WebKit browsers (Safari and Chrome) load JavaScript and CSS information in parallel. Thus, JavaScript may execute before the styling effects of CSS have been computed, returning the wrong answer. In jQuery, I've found that the solution is to wait until document.readyState == 'complete', .e.g.,

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
  if (jQuery.browser.safari && document.readyState != "complete"){
    //console.info('ready...');
    setTimeout( arguments.callee, 100 );
    return;
  } 
  ... (rest of function) 

As far as width and height goes... depending on what you are doing you may want offsetWidth and offsetHeight, which include things like borders and padding.

this works for me (safari 3.2), by firing from within the window.onload event:

$(window).load(function() {
  var pic = $('img');

  pic.removeAttr("width"); 
  pic.removeAttr("height");

  alert( pic.width() );
  alert( pic.height() );
});

Recently I needed to find width and height for setting default size of .dialog representing graph. Solution I use was :

 graph= $('<img/>', {"src":'mySRC', id:'graph-img'});
    graph.bind('load', function (){
        wid = graph.attr('width');
        hei = graph.attr('height');

        graph.dialog({ autoOpen: false, title: 'MyGraphTitle', height:hei, width:wid })
    })

For me this works in FF3, Opera 10, IE 8,7,6

P.S. You may be find some more solutions looking inside some plugins like LightBox or ColorBox

I checked out the answer of Dio and it works great for me.

$('#image').fadeIn(10,function () {var tmpW = $(this).width(); var tmpH = $(this).height(); });

Make sure that you call all your functions aso. that handle with the image size in the recaller function of fadeIn().

Thanks for this.

I use different approach, simply make Ajax call to server to get image size when image object is in use.

//make json call to server to get image size
$.getJSON("http://server/getimagesize.php",
{"src":url},
SetImageWidth
);

//callback function
function SetImageWidth(data) {

    var wrap = $("div#image_gallery #image_wrap");

    //remove height
     wrap.find("img").removeAttr('height');
    //remove height
     wrap.find("img").removeAttr('width');

    //set image width
    if (data.width > 635) {
        wrap.find("img").width(635);
    }
    else {
         wrap.find("img").width(data.width);
    }
}

and of course server side code:

<?php

$image_width = 0;
$image_height = 0;

if (isset ($_REQUEST['src']) && is_file($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $_REQUEST['src'])) {

    $imageinfo = getimagesize($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$_REQUEST['src']);
    if ($imageinfo) {
       $image_width=  $imageinfo[0];
       $image_height= $imageinfo[1];
    }
}

$arr = array ('width'=>$image_width,'height'=>$image_height);

echo json_encode($arr);

?>