Calculating text width

Question

I\'m trying to calculate text width using jQuery. I\'m not sure what, but I am definitely doing something wrong.

So, here is the code:

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Answer 1

Slight change to Nico's, since .children() will return an empty set if we're referencing a text element like an h1 or p. So we'll use .contents() instead, and use this instead of $(this) since we're creating a method on a jQuery object.

$.fn.textWidth = function(){
    var contents = this.contents(),
        wrapper  = '',
        width    = '';

    contents.wrapAll(wrapper);
    width = contents.parent().width(); // parent is now the wrapper
    contents.unwrap();
    return width;
    };