Find the “potential” width of a hidden element

Question

I\'m currently extending the lavalamp plugin to work on dropdown menus but I\'ve encountered a small problem. I need to know the offsetWidth of an element that

Answer 1

What I did was ; by the time hiding that element, stored its width in its dataset. It only will work for you if you can hide programmatically.

ie.

When Hiding ;

var elem = $("selectorOfElement");

elem.dataset.orgWidth = elem.clientWidth;

Later when getting ;

var elem = $("selectorOfElement");

var originalWidthWas = elem.dataset.orgWidth;