Getting the actual, floating-point width of an element

Question

I\'m using jQuery (v1.7.1) and I need to get the absolute, floating-point width of an element, but all of jQuery\'s width methods seem to be rounding-off the value of the wi

Answer 1

Try this:

var element = document.getElementById("a");
alert(window.getComputedStyle(element).width);

Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/johnkoer/Z2MBj/18/