jQuery min/max property from array of elements

Question

Is there a simple way to find the min/max property from an array of elements in jQuery?

I constantly find myself dynamically resizing groups of elements based on the

Answer 1

I wrote a simple plugin to do exactly this - see gregbrown.co.nz/code/jquery-aggregate . With it installed, you could do:

var maxWidth = $('img').aggregate('width', 'max');