Onresize for div elements?

Question

Visual Studio highlighted my onresize attribute of my div tag, and says that it isn\'t a valid attribute for HTML5. Is this true? What should I use

Answer 1

Add the following CSS and JavaScript to your page, and use the addResizeListener and removeResizeListener methods to listen for element size changes (blog post for further details: http://www.backalleycoder.com/2013/03/18/cross-browser-event-based-element-resize-detection/):

Resize Sensor CSS

.resize-triggers {
    visibility: hidden;
}

.resize-triggers, .resize-triggers > div, .contract-trigger:before {
  content: " ";
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
  overflow: hidden;
}

.resize-triggers > div {
  background: #eee;
  overflow: auto;
}

.contract-trigger:before {
  width: 200%;
  height: 200%;
}

Resize Event Methods

The following is the JavaScript you’ll need to enable resize event listening. The first two functions are prerequisites that are used in the main addResizeListener and removeResizeListener methods.

(function(){

var attachEvent = document.attachEvent;

if (!attachEvent) {
    var requestFrame = (function(){
      var raf = window.requestAnimationFrame || window.mozRequestAnimationFrame || window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame ||
                function(fn){ return window.setTimeout(fn, 20); };
      return function(fn){ return raf(fn); };
    })();

    var cancelFrame = (function(){
      var cancel = window.cancelAnimationFrame || window.mozCancelAnimationFrame || window.webkitCancelAnimationFrame ||
                   window.clearTimeout;
      return function(id){ return cancel(id); };
    })();

    function resetTriggers(element){
        var triggers = element.__resizeTriggers__,
            expand = triggers.firstElementChild,
            contract = triggers.lastElementChild,
            expandChild = expand.firstElementChild;
        contract.scrollLeft = contract.scrollWidth;
        contract.scrollTop = contract.scrollHeight;
        expandChild.style.width = expand.offsetWidth + 1 + 'px';
        expandChild.style.height = expand.offsetHeight + 1 + 'px';
        expand.scrollLeft = expand.scrollWidth;
        expand.scrollTop = expand.scrollHeight;
    };

    function checkTriggers(element){
      return element.offsetWidth != element.__resizeLast__.width ||
             element.offsetHeight != element.__resizeLast__.height;
    }

    function scrollListener(e){
        var element = this;
        resetTriggers(this);
        if (this.__resizeRAF__) cancelFrame(this.__resizeRAF__);
        this.__resizeRAF__ = requestFrame(function(){
            if (checkTriggers(element)) {
                element.__resizeLast__.width = element.offsetWidth;
                element.__resizeLast__.height = element.offsetHeight;
                element.__resizeListeners__.forEach(function(fn){
                    fn.call(element, e);
                });
            }
        });
    };
}

window.addResizeListener = function(element, fn){
    if (attachEvent) element.attachEvent('resize', fn);
    else {
        if (!element.__resizeTriggers__) {
            if (getComputedStyle(element).position == 'static') element.style.position = 'relative';
            element.__resizeLast__ = {};
            element.__resizeListeners__ = [];
            (element.__resizeTriggers__ = document.createElement('div')).className = 'resize-triggers';
            element.__resizeTriggers__.innerHTML = '
' +
                                                   '
';
            element.appendChild(element.__resizeTriggers__);
            resetTriggers(element);
            element.addEventListener('scroll', scrollListener, true);
        }
        element.__resizeListeners__.push(fn);
    }
};

window.removeResizeListener = function(element, fn){
    if (attachEvent) element.detachEvent('resize', fn);
    else {
        element.__resizeListeners__.splice(element.__resizeListeners__.indexOf(fn), 1);
        if (!element.__resizeListeners__.length) {
            element.removeEventListener('scroll', scrollListener);
            element.__resizeTriggers__ = !element.removeChild(element.__resizeTriggers__);
        }
    }
}

})();

Demo-licious!

Here’s a pseudo code usage of the method.

var myElement = document.getElementById('my_element'),
    myResizeFn = function(){
        /* do something on resize */
    };
addResizeListener(myElement, myResizeFn);
removeResizeListener(myElement, myResizeFn);