Thanks alot for the suggestion. It didn't work though. I'm at a
loss. Is this a jQuery bug, or am I doing something wrong?
On Nov 25, 3:53 pm, "Jeffrey Kretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You could try this:
>
> jQuery('div.clause').each(function(){
> var width = 0;
> var words = jQuery(this).children('div.word');
> for (var i=0;i<words.length;i++)
> {
> var word = words.eq(i);
> var thiswidth = word.width();
> var padding = word.css('padding-left');
> width = width + parseInt(thiswidth) + parseInt(padding);
> }
> jQuery(this).width(width+30);
> });
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>
> Behalf Of thesubtledoctor
> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:44 AM
> To: jQuery (English)
> Subject: [jQuery] scope issues in safari
>
> I need to calculate the widths of the divs of class 'clause'
> dynamically based on the widths of their contents, divs of class
> 'word'. The following code works correctly in Firefox:
>
> jQuery('div.clause').each(function(){
> var width = 0;
> jQuery(this).children('div.word').each(function(){
> var thiswidth = jQuery(this).width();
> var padding = jQuery(this).css('padding-left');
> width = width + parseInt(thiswidth) + parseInt(padding);
> });
> jQuery(this).width(width+30);
> });
>
> but in Safari it seems that a) the variable 'width' is calculated by
> adding the widths of every div.word, not just those within a given
> div.clause, b) 'width' is not local within the outer .each brackets,
> so that what would be the total width of the second div.clause but for
> issue (a) is added on top of the already calculated width for the
> first div.clause.
>
> So in Firefox the calculated widths are 187px, 268px, and 353px,
> whereas in safari they are 2838px, 8544px, and 34206px.
>
> Can anyone suggest a solution?
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