In IE, on Focus I want to potentially expand the width of an element to width: auto only where the automatic width is wider then the static width I have set. What Im trying to avoid is just always setting the element to width: auto and having the element shrink. I only want it to expand where necessary.
Anyone have a clean way to check what the elements width would be when set to auto with out having to first set the attribute? Right now, I set it, then check the width and potentially set it back to static, seems like there should be a cleaner solution.
Example of current code with jquery:
$('mySelector').live('focus', function() { //store the original width, then set the element to width: auto $(this).data('w', $(this).width()).css('width', 'auto')); //is the element now shorter? if so, set it back to the original width if ($(this).width() < $(this).data('w')) { $(this).width($(this).data('w')); } } 
