calculate element height for collection-repeat

gistfile1.txt

  calcDim = (template, scope, containerElement) ->
    exp = $interpolate(template)
    html = exp(scope)
    html = "<div class='item item-text-wrap' style='width: 100%; position: absolute;'>" + html + "</div>"
    newElement = angular.element(html)
    newElement.css(ionic.CSS.TRANSFORM, 'translate3d(-2000px,-2000px,0)')
    containerElement.append(newElement)      
    offsetHeight = newElement[0].offsetHeight
    offsetWidth = newElement[0].children[0].offsetWidth
    newElement.remove()
    width : offsetWidth, height : offsetHeight

  getThreadContentDim = (thread, containerElement) ->
    calcDim boardThreadType.getThreadTemplate(thread), {thread : thread}, containerElement

  getImageHeigth = (thread, contentWidth) ->
    if thread.data.img      
      regex = /^.*-(\d{1,4}x\d{1,4})\.(gif|jpg|png)$/g
      match = regex.exec thread.data.img
      if match
        dim = match[1]
        spts = dim.split "x"
        width = parseInt spts[0]
        height = parseInt spts[1]
        #scale to thumb size
        h = (contentWidth / width) * height
        return h
      else
        return 300
    return 0  

  getMessageHeigth = (thread, containerElement) ->
    contentDim = getThreadContentDim thread, containerElement
    imgHeight = getImageHeigth thread, contentDim.width
    contentDim.height + imgHeight