jQuery: Why does .width() sometimes return 0 after inserting elements with .html()?

Question

I am getting some html and inserting it with .html(), after which I am trying to get the width of one of newly inserted elements with .width() (which h

Answer 1

Depends on what browser. Occasionally I find something will break with the synchronous rendering expectations of the javascript runtime and I'll need to get the result on the next tick.

I'd try:

$(elem).html(data);
setTimeout(function(){
    // Get the width here
},0);