Remove the width and height attributes and read offsetWidth and offsetHeight
Option 2:
Create a JavaScript Image object, set the src, and read the width and height (you don't even have to add it to the page to do this).
function getImgSize(imgSrc) {
var newImg = new Image();
newImg.onload = function() {
var height = newImg.height;
var width = newImg.width;
alert ('The image size is '+width+'*'+height);
}
newImg.src = imgSrc; // this must be done AFTER setting onload
}
Edit by Pekka: As agreed in the comments, I changed the function to run on the ´onload´ event of the image. Otherwise, with big images, height and width would not return anything because the image was not loaded yet.
getImgSize($("#_temp_circlePic").attr("src"), function (imgSize) {
// do what you want with the image's size.
var ratio = imgSize.height / $("#_temp_circlePic").height();
});