Question

I’m trying to get div’s width with javascript. Initially div’s width is undefined, ie width depends on amount of text on it. Is it possible to get width of this kind of div? I’m trying to do it with following javascript code, but i’m getting width differerent from Chrome console when i’m inspecting div

var mydiv = document.getElementById("error_message");
var curr_width = mydiv.clientWidth;
alert(curr_width);

Thank you for your attention

Answer 1

use offsetWidth

clientWidth is calculated width, offsetWidth is the one in “Chrome inspect element” (i think)

also read the comments 😛