.css(‘width’) and .css(‘height’) versus .width() and .height()

Question

Guys I\'ve been asking around and nobody can really tell me the benefits of using .css(‘width’) and .css(‘height’) rather than .width()

Answer 1

By now people should know that one should be used for maths, and the other shouldn't...

Or should it?

I did a little speed test on the various options and according to my findings:

1. It is faster to grab the width with .css
2. It is faster to set the width with .width

So in other words, to do a grab something and set another, you probably should:

$('#element1').width(parseInt($('#element2').css('width'), 10));