jQuery API

.innerWidth()

Categories: CSS | Dimensions | Manipulation > Style Properties

.innerWidth() Returns: Integer

Description: Get the current computed width for the first element in the set of matched elements, including padding but not border.

  • version added: 1.2.6.innerWidth()

This method returns the width of the element, including left and right padding, in pixels.

This method is not applicable to window and document objects; for these, use .width() instead.

Example:

Get the innerWidth of a paragraph.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <style>p { margin:10px;padding:5px;border:2px solid #666; } </style>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
	<p>Hello</p><p></p>
<script>var p = $("p:first");
$("p:last").text( "innerWidth:" + p.innerWidth() );</script>
</body>
</html>

Demo:

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