Ah I see, try just doing $("#selector").width() that should work for you
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Brandon Ryall
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Brent Wood <bluetrai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because the text that goes into the draggable().resizable() is dynamic.
> Text length could be anything, and even the fontFamily, fontSize, etc. could
> be different, so I could not explicitly set the width each time.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Brandon Ryall
> <brandon.ry...@emaint.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Why not just set a width in the css initially?
>>
>> I do something similar, except height on my project.
>> $("#dragItem").resizable({
>> resize: function(ev, ui) {
>> $curHeight = $(this).css("height");
>> }
>> });
>>
>> On Oct 23, 9:13 am, bluetrain <bluetrai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > How do you determine the initial width of a draggable().resizable()
>> > div, after just instantiating it, without doing anything else to it?
>> > The div contains text, and it is obvious that jQuery must know its own
>> > width, or else (presumably) the resizable borders would not be
>> > perfectly flush with the text.
>> >
>> > I have drilled down into the $(id)[0] object, including all
>> > childNodes, looking for any “width” property which may be useful
>> > (style.pixelWidth, clientWidth, posWidth, scrollWidth, offsetWidth,
>> > etc.). (This may not be a complete list of “width” properties, but I
>> > assure you I have looked through every last property that looks like
>> > it would represent a width of any kind.) What I’m seeing is that these
>> > various “width” properties are either zero, a blank string, or have
>> > some useless value, such as clientWidth = 7 (pixels), which is way
>> > wrong because I can see that it is more like 100.
>> >
>> > I have put breakpoints on every line in the jQuery code where the
>> > string “width” occurs (whole word or any part of a word) and none of
>> > these get hit during instantiation (or none of the lines where a
>> > variable could be equal to the string “width” get hit with said
>> > variable equal to “width”). So I can’t tell when/if jQuery ever
>> > explicitly sets/gets a width property at any time.
>> >
>> > As a workaround, I have found that if I manually resize the div, then
>> > look at the style.pixelWidth, then and only then does it give me a
>> > valid width property.
>> >
>> > Any other ideas on how to do this without requiring manual resizing of
>> > every single text-containing draggable().resizable() div?
>>
>>
>
> >
>
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