Calculate total width of Children with jQuery

Question

I\'ve tried finding an understandable answer to this, but given up.

In order to have dymnamic content (like blog posts and images) in a hori

Answer 1

You can calculate the width with this one-liner, albeit a tad longer than I would have liked.

var width = $('.post').map(function(undefined, elem) {
    return $(elem).outerWidth(true);
}).toArray().reduce(function(prev, curr) {
    return prev + curr;
}, 0);