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How to get full page height with Javascript?

Is there any way of getting the full page height including scrollable content?
For example, in the page below I have a height of 613px, but with a lot more content that was scrolled out. If a get the value of document.documentElement.scrollHeight it gives me the same 613px. Is there any way I can actually get the full page height?
EDIT:
I've tried some of the answers, but somehow, for this page I always get the same height (https://material.angular.io/). Does someone know why?

This will give you a height of scrollable area too
(function() {
let pageHeight = 0;
function findHighestNode(nodesList) {
for (let i = nodesList.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
if (nodesList[i].scrollHeight && nodesList[i].clientHeight) {
var elHeight = Math.max(nodesList[i].scrollHeight, nodesList[i].clientHeight);
pageHeight = Math.max(elHeight, pageHeight);
}
if (nodesList[i].childNodes.length) findHighestNode(nodesList[i].childNodes);
}
}
findHighestNode(document.documentElement.childNodes);
console.log('You page hight it', pageHeight);
})();

try
window.outerHeight
I think this will help you to get window height with scrollable area.

Similar to #reachtokish, document.querySelector('body').scrollHeight will give you the whole height of the scrollable page

With the developer tools console you can try it for this page
var pageHeight = document.documentElement.scrollHeight;
This looks like this

'Media-queries' for javascript - different code for different viewport height/widths

The problem
I'm using javascript to calculate widths of elements to achieve the layout I'm after. The problem is, I don't want to load the code on smaller screen sizes (when the screen width is less than 480px for example). I'd like this to work on load and on browser/viewport resize.
I'd consider small screen devices 'the default' and working up from there. So, none of the following script is called by default, then if the browser width is greater than 480px (for example), the following script would be called:
The code
$(document).ready(function() {
//Get the figures width
var figure_width = $(".project-index figure").css("width").replace("px", "");
//Get num figures
var num_figures = $(".project-index figure").length;
//Work out how manay figures per row
var num_row_figures = Math.ceil(num_figures / 2);
//Get the total width
var row_width = figure_width * num_row_figures;
//Set container width to half the total
$(".project-index").width(row_width);
x = null;
y = null;
$(".project-index div").mousedown(function(e) {
x = e.clientX;
y = e.clientY;
});
$(".project-index div").mouseup(function(e) {
if (x == e.clientX && y == e.clientY) {
//alert($(this).next().attr("href"));
window.location.assign($(this).next().attr("href"));
}
x = y = null;
});
});
// Drag-on content
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
jQuery('#main').dragOn();
});
The extra bit
The slight difference on larger screens is to do with the browser/viewport height. This is in regards to the line:
var num_row_figures = Math.ceil(num_figures / 2);
You can see once the calculation has a value, it divides it by 2. I only want this to happen when the browser/viewport height is above a certain amount - say 600px.
I'd be happy with this being the 1st state and then the value is divided by 2 if the height is greater than 600px if it's easier.
Can anyone help me/shed some light on how to manage my script this way. I know there's media queries for managing CSS but I can't seem to find any resources for how to manage javascript this way - hope someone can help.
Cheers,
Steve

You can use window.matchMedia, which is the javascript equivalent of media queries. The matchMedia call creates a mediaQueryList object. We can query the mediaQueryList object matches property to get the state, and attach an event handler using mediaQueryList.addListener to track changes.
I've added an example on fiddle of using matchMedia on load and on resize. Change the bottom left pane height and width (using the borders), and see the states of the two queries.
This is the code I've used:
<div>Min width 400: <span id="minWidth400"></span></div>
<div>Min height 600: <span id="minHeight600"></span></div>
var matchMinWidth400 = window.matchMedia("(min-width: 400px)"); // create a MediaQueryList
var matchMinHeight600 = window.matchMedia("(min-height: 600px)"); // create a MediaQueryList
var minWidth400Status = document.getElementById('minWidth400');
var minHeight600Status = document.getElementById('minHeight600');
function updateMinWidth400(state) {
minWidth400Status.innerText = state;
}
function updateMinHeight600(state) {
minHeight600Status.innerText = state;
}
updateMinWidth400(matchMinWidth400.matches); // check match on load
updateMinHeight600(matchMinHeight600.matches); // check match on load
matchMinWidth400.addListener(function(MediaQueryListEvent) { // check match on resize
updateMinWidth400(MediaQueryListEvent.matches);
});
matchMinHeight600.addListener(function(MediaQueryListEvent) { // check match on resize
updateMinHeight600(MediaQueryListEvent.matches);
});

#media screen and (max-width: 300px) {
body {
background-color: lightblue;
}
}
So i searched a bit and came up with this example from w3 schools .http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss3_media_example1
i think this is something you are trying to achieve.
For pure js , you can get the screen width by screen.width

setting a dynamic height to a div based on screen space available

what i need to achieve is the following:
a webpage for smartphone that contains a series of divs with heights, paddings, margins, etc.. and one particular div at the bottom that should be as high as the (window.innerHeight minus all the other divs' heights before him) so that the javascript can stick a fixed height to it (which has to be dynamic because i don't know the device screen height) and i can set via CSS overflow:auto and make it scrollable.
the js i started using is the following:
(function() {
function resize(delta) {
var heights = window.innerHeight;
jQuery('.dynamic-height').css('height', (heights - delta) + "px");
}
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/(iPad|iPhone|iPod touch);.*CPU.*OS 7_\d/i)) {
resize(20);
} else {
resize(0);
}
})();
you can ignore the if/else statement.
here is a very simple fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/omegaiori/k56wj/
the div that has to have the dynamic height is div.dynamic-height (violet background).
thank you so much for your help, this would be a life saver! :)

Try this,
Demo
(function() {
function resize() {
total = 0;
jQuery('.cont div').each(function(){
total += parseInt($(this).css('margin-top').split('px')[0])+parseInt($(this).css('margin-bottom').split('px')[0])+$(this).height()
});
var heights = window.innerHeight;
var dy_height = heights-total
jQuery('.dynamic-height').css('height', dy_height + "px");
}
resize()
})();

Change margin-top as user scrolls

I am trying to get a div to scroll up at the same amount of pixels as the user scrolls down the page. For example, in Google Chrome when using the mouse wheel, it scrolls down in about 20px intervals. But when you scroll down using the handle, the scrolling amount varies.
Here is my code so far:
var scrollCtr = 50;
$(window).scroll(function(){
scrollCtr = scrollCtr - 20;
$('div.nexus-files').css('margin-top', scrollCtr + 'px');
});
There are a few problems with this:
The user scrolling varies
It needs to subtract from margin-top if scrolling down and add to margin-top if scrolling up
Here is an example:
http://www.enflick.com/
Thanks for the help

You're doing it the wrong way, what you are trying to do should be done using position: fixed on div.nexus-files
div.nexus-files{position: fixed; top: 0;}
but anyway - if you still want to know what you can do with the scroll event - you better get to scrollTop of the document and set the margin-top to the same value
window.onscroll = function(event){
var doc = document.documentElement, body = document.body;
var top = (doc && doc.scrollTop || body && body.scrollTop || 0);
document.getElementById('nexus-files_id').style.marginTop = top+'px';
}
I'm using pure Javascript instead of jQuery because of the overhead that might be crucial when the browser need to calculate stuff in a very short amount of time (during the scrolling). [this can be done even more efficient by storing reference to the element and the doc... but you know..)
I used id based selector to get the specific element instead of class based
AND I SAY AGAIN - this is not how you should do what you were trying to do

Why not using the actual scroll offset as reference or position ?
// or whatever offset you need
var scrollOffset = document.body.scrollTop + 20;
// jQuery
var scrollOffset = $("body").scrollTop() + 20;

Finally Got it
Here is the code I used to accomplish the task.
Most of the code is from http://enflick.com and I modified it to work with my individual situation.
jQuery(window).load(function(){
initParallax();
});
// parallax init
function initParallax(){
var win = jQuery(window);
var wrapper = jQuery('#wrapper');
var bg1 = wrapper.find('.nexus-files');
var koeff = 0.55;
if (bg1.length) {
function refreshPosition(){
var scrolled = win.scrollTop();
var maxOffsetY1 = 450;
var offsetY1 = scrolled * koeff;
var offsetY2 = scrolled * koeff - (maxOffsetY1 * koeff - offsetY1);
if (offsetY1 <= maxOffsetY1 * koeff - offsetY1) {
bg1.css("margin-top", +-offsetY1+"px");
//alert(+-offsetY1+"px");
}
}
refreshPosition();
win.bind('resize scroll', refreshPosition);
}
}

jQuery Variable Height

I'm trying to have an image gallery where a caption is vertically centered inside of a slideshow, here's the code I'm working with
$(window).load(function() {
var imageHeight = $('.flexslider .slides li img').height();
var captionTop = imageHeight - $('.title-cap').height();
var captionTop = captionTop/2;
$('.title-cap').css('top',captionTop + 'px');
var captionTopOne = imageHeight - $('.sub-cap-one').height();
var captionTopOne = captionTopOne/2;
$('.sub-cap-one').css('top',captionTopOne + 'px');
var captionTopTwo = imageHeight - $('.sub-cap-two').height();
var captionTopTwo = captionTopTwo/2;
$('.sub-cap-two').css('top',captionTopTwo + 'px');
var captionTopThr = imageHeight - $('.sub-cap-three').height();
var captionTopThr = captionTopThr/2;
$('.sub-cap-three').css('top',captionTopThr + 'px');
});
The caption is positioned absolutely, and I'm using top to do the centering...
So my thought process is, get the height of the base slideshow image to keep it responsive, minus the height of the current caption, and divide that by two ending with the top value.
The first instance is working, with "title-cap", but the next three are not. They all return the same wrong value. All caption classes have the same attributes, just different for assignment.
Also, what would I need to add in order for the values to dynamically change with the browser window size in real time.
Edit: Alright, did a little research and figured out the load/resize part.
This is what I have now
function setContent(){
[Added all of the above minus the onload part in here]
}
$(window).load(function() {
setContent();
});
$(window).resize(function() {
setContent();
});
Now just not sure why the sub-cap's aren't loading properly. Any ideas?

I've had similar problem when trying to get the size of hidden elements. I found this nice jQuery actual plugin. It might be what you need.