The "quirk" is to be expected. From what I understand of timeouts, they will
never fire at 0ms... but setting a timeout to 0ms guarantees it will fire at
the next possible time and put it at the end of the call stack... and,
thankfully, in this case allows the user interface to catch up. Anyhow, I'm
really glad that worked for you.
Brian.
On 10/31/07, charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > setTimeout( function(){ alert( $("#select-thing").width() ) }, 0 );
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> That did the trick! Behavior is now identical in Firefox and IE6, and
> in both cases the width correct. Oddly, it continues to update with
> the "new" width even if I move the setTimeout line to before the "New
> option" call. I'm just going to put it in the logical order (first
> add the rows, then check the width) and ignore that little quirk
> though.
>
> My immense thanks!
>
> -Charlie
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