Why does jQuery.css('width') return different values in different browsers?

Question

I\'ve written some jQuery code that reads the width of the columns in a table and applies them to another table.

On my page, there is a TABLE like this:

Answer 1

I faced the same problem trying to detect the width of the body and load specific scripts and I worked around it this way. May help you as well.

$('body,html').css({'overflow':'hidden'});
var width = $('body').width();
$('body,html').css({'overflow':''});

this gives a consistent value in all major browsers

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