Why not just set a width in the css initially?
I do something similar, except height on my project.
$("#dragItem").resizable({
resize: function(ev, ui) {
$curHeight = $(this).css("height");
}
});
On Oct 23, 9:13 am, bluetrain <[email protected]> wrote:
> How do you determine the initial width of a draggable().resizable()
> div, after just instantiating it, without doing anything else to it?
> The div contains text, and it is obvious that jQuery must know its own
> width, or else (presumably) the resizable borders would not be
> perfectly flush with the text.
>
> I have drilled down into the $(id)[0] object, including all
> childNodes, looking for any “width” property which may be useful
> (style.pixelWidth, clientWidth, posWidth, scrollWidth, offsetWidth,
> etc.). (This may not be a complete list of “width” properties, but I
> assure you I have looked through every last property that looks like
> it would represent a width of any kind.) What I’m seeing is that these
> various “width” properties are either zero, a blank string, or have
> some useless value, such as clientWidth = 7 (pixels), which is way
> wrong because I can see that it is more like 100.
>
> I have put breakpoints on every line in the jQuery code where the
> string “width” occurs (whole word or any part of a word) and none of
> these get hit during instantiation (or none of the lines where a
> variable could be equal to the string “width” get hit with said
> variable equal to “width”). So I can’t tell when/if jQuery ever
> explicitly sets/gets a width property at any time.
>
> As a workaround, I have found that if I manually resize the div, then
> look at the style.pixelWidth, then and only then does it give me a
> valid width property.
>
> Any other ideas on how to do this without requiring manual resizing of
> every single text-containing draggable().resizable() div?
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