Is it (width, height) or (height, width)?

Question

Is there a convention for the order of (height, width) in function arguments or when displaying dimensions?

Answer 1

I don't know a huge number of languages, but what I have used go with (width, height). It's more fitting along the lines of (x, y) coordinates.

Answer 2

I'd say (width, height) is overwhelmingly more common. It never hurts to make it explicit though (through argument naming, etc)

Answer 3

I don’t know if there is a convention elsewhere but personally I always use the convention used by graphics (usually even outside of computing, e.g. in photography): width before height.

Answer 4

The (width, height) seems to be more common all around.

Answer 5

it is exactly width-height

Answer 6

In the door and up the stairs. That's the mnemonic I was taught for map co-ordinates.

Answer 7

Display resolution is also normally quoted in "width × height".

Wikipedia link to Display Resolution