jQuery UI Resizable: set size programmatically?

Question

For example, user inputs width and height values to tell the widget to resize to that dimension. How to implement this?

Answer 1

var w = prompt('width?')*1;
var h = prompt('height?')*1;
$('#resizable').css('width', w );
$('#resizable').css('height', h );

You don't need to use jqueryui's resizable in order to resize it in script. The jQuery .css() method applies for any DOM element. You can also animate({width: 500},1000).