Question

Suppose I have a div in my page, that doesn’t have a width property manually set.

A user can resize his window, and so this div has, visually, a new “size” (dynamic). Is this new size (in px value terms) available somewhere? Like, “div.getCurrentSize” or something like that?

So, is it possible to get this width value from this div using something like javascript?

Answer 1

Look at the jQuery dimensions methods, e.g.

var w = $('#id').width();

Also note that it’s not usually possible to obtain the dimensions of any element that’s hidden. If you set the display property to none then the dimensions will all read as zero.