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user3733831
user3733831

Reputation: 2926

jQuery get width of ajax loaded elements

I am trying to add a css class to ajax loaded html element. My HTML look like as below:

<h4 class="overflow-text"><span>This is the response from the ajax call.</span></h4>

This h4 is a fixed width element and span inside h4 may be overflowing. So I need to add a CSS class for h4 if span text is overflowing. Here I am trying this with getting width of these two element and comparing it as below.

var el = $('h4.overflow-text');
el.each(function() {
  var span = $(this).find('span')
  if (span.width() > $(this).width()) {
    $(this).addClass('text-marquee')
    console.log('overflow')
  } else {
    console.log('not overflow')
  }
})

This works for me, if html not load from ajax. But not working on ajax responce. So I tried it on ajax sussess as below. But it also doesn't work for me.

success: function(res) {
  var $response = $("<div/>").html(res);
  var wp = $response.find('.overflow-text').width();
  var wc = $response.find('.overflow-text').children('span').width();


  console.log(wp,wc)

  $container.fadeOut( 50 , function() {
    jQuery(this).html( res);
  }).fadeIn( 1000 );
},

Doesn't works mean, wp and wc always giving 0. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 115

Answers (1)

Prakhar Thakur
Prakhar Thakur

Reputation: 1229

Checking the width of the element after the content has been added to the DOM should work.

Edit: I saw that the DOM is not updated immediately however waiting for even a millisecond is enough and it gives the desired result.

    $.get("spantext", function(data, status){

          $('.container').fadeOut( 50 , function() {

            jQuery(this).html(data);

            $container = jQuery(this);
            setTimeout(function(){
                var wp = $container.find('.overflow-text').width();
                var wc = $container.find('.overflow-text').children('span').width();
                console.log(wp,wc)
            },1);

          }).fadeIn( 1000 );
    });

Upvotes: 1

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