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

I use for this following code:

function resize(target, new_width, new_height){ 
    var $wrapper = $(target).resizable('widget'),
        $element = $wrapper.find('.ui-resizable'),
        dx = $element.width()  - new_width,
        dy = $element.height() - new_height;

    $element.width( new_width );
    $wrapper.width( $wrapper.width() - dx );
    $element.height( new_height );
    $wrapper.height( $wrapper.height() - dy );
}