Home/ Questions/Q 6007905
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-23T01:44:56+00:00

This is a general programming question (it doesn’t have a specific purpose/application yet). If

  • 0

This is a general programming question (it doesn’t have a specific purpose/application yet).

If I create a tag in HTML (lets say an img, a, or div), but don’t define its width or use a percent width (ie width:50%) how would I go about finding the actual width it is displaying (in pixels) using javascript? I would also perfer for it to be crossbrowser, but that isn’t my major concern.

I mean I know that if it is a block element like div it will take 100%, but how do I find what 100% is? Do I just have to climb the node tree until I find a parent node with a defined width and then calculate it based on that?

I am aware of clientWidth and clientHeight, but neither of those are crossbrowser or w3 approved…

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Check out the .width() function in jQuery’s API. This is definitely cross-browser and returns the width in pixels (see documentation for details).

    • 0