Question

I’m pretty sure this will be a really easy answer for you jQuery whizzes, and I’m also pretty such it involves a loop of some kind.

I’m trying to perform essentially the same calculation on two separate divs, but assigning a different CSS width value to each id based on the number of images found. The calculations I’m performing are irrelevant to my problem really, but I put them in anyway because it’s the actual code I’m working with.

Here is the markup…

<div id ='test1' class='target'>
  <div class='scrolling'>
    <img/>
    <img/>
    <img/>
  </div>
</div>

<div id ='test2' class='target'>
  <div class='scrolling'>
    <img/>
    <img/>
    <img/>
  </div>
</div>

Below is my current jQuery, which works fine, but it’s inefficient because I have to write another chunk of code for every div added. How can I standardise this so that it runs through every div with the class of target? Thanks

/* Measure the width of each image. */
test1 = $('#div1 .scrolling img').width();
test2 = $('#div2 .scrolling img').width();

/* Find out how many images there are. */
test1img = $('#div1 .scrolling img').length;
test2img = $('#div2 .scrolling img').length;

/* Do the maths. */
final1 = (test1 * test1img)*1.2;
final2 = (test2 * test2img)*1.2;

/* Apply the maths to the CSS. */
$('#div1 .scrolling').width(final1);
$('#div2 .scrolling').width(final2);    

Answer 1

Like this:

$(".target").each(function(){
    var images = $(this).find(".scrolling img");
    var width = images.width();
    var imgLength = images.length;
    $(this).find(".scrolling").width( width * imgLength * 1.2 );
});

The $(this) refers to the current .target which will be looped through. Within this .target I’m looking for the .scrolling img and get the width. And then keep on going…

Images with different widths

If you want to calculate the width of all images (when they have different widths) you can do it like this:

// Get the total width of a collection.
$.fn.getTotalWidth = function(){
    var width = 0;
    this.each(function(){
        width += $(this).width();
    });
    return width;
}

$(".target").each(function(){
    var images = $(this).find(".scrolling img");
    var width = images.getTotalWidth();
    $(this).find(".scrolling").width( width * 1.2 );
});