A jQuery plugin that gets the actual width of hidden DOM elements
Description
Older version of jQuery has trouble finding the width/height of invisible DOM elements. With element or its parent element has css property ‘display’ set to ‘none’. $('.hidden').width(); will return 0 instead of the actual width. This plugin simply fix it.
Demo
- Click here to see the demo
- If you use css3pie you might also want to take a look at this demo( demo/css3pie.html )
- Demo pages are also included in the source file
Download
- Download source code from Github
Requires
- jQuery 1.2.3+
Browser Compatibility
- Firefox 2.0+
- Internet Explorer 6+
- Safari 3+
- Opera 10.6+
- Chrome 8+
Installation
- First, make sure you are using valid DOCTYPE
- Include nessesary JS files
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="path-to-file/jquery.actual.js"></script>
Usage
Example code:
// get hidden element actual width
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'width' );
// get hidden element actual innerWidth
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'innerWidth' );
// get hidden element actual outerWidth
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'outerWidth' );
// get hidden element actual outerWidth and set the `includeMargin` argument
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'outerWidth', { includeMargin : true });
// get hidden element actual height
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'height' );
// get hidden element actual innerHeight
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'innerHeight' );
// get hidden element actual outerHeight
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'outerHeight' );
// get hidden element actual outerHeight and set the `includeMargin` argument
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'outerHeight', { includeMargin : true });
// if the page jumps or blinks, pass a attribute '{ absolute : true }'
// be very careful, you might get a wrong result depends on how you makrup your html and css
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'height', { absolute : true });
// if you use css3pie with a float element
// for example a rounded corner navigation menu you can also try to pass a attribute '{ clone : true }'
// please see demo/css3pie in action
$( '.hidden' ).actual( 'width', { clone : true });
