jQuery 1.8.2 + noncurrent jQuery UI = outerWidth and outerHeight broken

Question

This is a re-do of a question that was closed erroneously: jQuery 1.8 outer Height/Width not working

I\'m hitting the same issue. outerWidth and o

Answer 1

A simple solution seems to be just passing in false

$(document.body).outerWidth(false);

Or, true if you want the margins, but if you were passing in true it looks like you would not have encountered this bug.

Answer 2

I suggest upgrading both your jQuery and jQuery UI packages. 1.8.1 and 1.8.2 in particular address issues related to outerWidth / outerHeight, and jQuery UI of course needs to be kept in sync.

See the changelogs on the announcements for reference:

http://blog.jquery.com/

http://blog.jqueryui.com/

Answer 3

Looks like it is jqueryUI issue. Seems to be fixed in 1.8.22.

With jquery UI 1.8.21: http://jsfiddle.net/yVq5H/13/

With jquery UI 1.8.22 (fixed): http://jsfiddle.net/yVq5H/14/