How to detect DIV's dimension changed?

Question

I\'ve the following sample html, there is a DIV which has 100% width. It contains some elements. While performing windows re-sizing, the inner elements may be re-positioned,

Answer 1

ResizeSensor.js is part of a huge library, but I reduced its functionality to THIS:

function ResizeSensor(element, callback)
{
    let zIndex = parseInt(getComputedStyle(element));
    if(isNaN(zIndex)) { zIndex = 0; };
    zIndex--;

    let expand = document.createElement('div');
    expand.style.position = "absolute";
    expand.style.left = "0px";
    expand.style.top = "0px";
    expand.style.right = "0px";
    expand.style.bottom = "0px";
    expand.style.overflow = "hidden";
    expand.style.zIndex = zIndex;
    expand.style.visibility = "hidden";

    let expandChild = document.createElement('div');
    expandChild.style.position = "absolute";
    expandChild.style.left = "0px";
    expandChild.style.top = "0px";
    expandChild.style.width = "10000000px";
    expandChild.style.height = "10000000px";
    expand.appendChild(expandChild);

    let shrink = document.createElement('div');
    shrink.style.position = "absolute";
    shrink.style.left = "0px";
    shrink.style.top = "0px";
    shrink.style.right = "0px";
    shrink.style.bottom = "0px";
    shrink.style.overflow = "hidden";
    shrink.style.zIndex = zIndex;
    shrink.style.visibility = "hidden";

    let shrinkChild = document.createElement('div');
    shrinkChild.style.position = "absolute";
    shrinkChild.style.left = "0px";
    shrinkChild.style.top = "0px";
    shrinkChild.style.width = "200%";
    shrinkChild.style.height = "200%";
    shrink.appendChild(shrinkChild);

    element.appendChild(expand);
    element.appendChild(shrink);

    function setScroll()
    {
        expand.scrollLeft = 10000000;
        expand.scrollTop = 10000000;

        shrink.scrollLeft = 10000000;
        shrink.scrollTop = 10000000;
    };
    setScroll();

    let size = element.getBoundingClientRect();

    let currentWidth = size.width;
    let currentHeight = size.height;

    let onScroll = function()
    {
        let size = element.getBoundingClientRect();

        let newWidth = size.width;
        let newHeight = size.height;

        if(newWidth != currentWidth || newHeight != currentHeight)
        {
            currentWidth = newWidth;
            currentHeight = newHeight;

            callback();
        }

        setScroll();
    };

    expand.addEventListener('scroll', onScroll);
    shrink.addEventListener('scroll', onScroll);
};

How to use it:

let container = document.querySelector(".container");
new ResizeSensor(container, function()
{
    console.log("dimension changed:", container.clientWidth, container.clientHeight);
});

Answer 2

Pure Javascript solution, but works only if the element is resized with the css resize button:

1. store element size with offsetWidth and offsetHeight;
2. add an onclick event listener on this element;
3. when triggered, compare curent offsetWidth and offsetHeight with stored values, and if different, do what you want and update these values.

Answer 3

jQuery(document).ready( function($) {

function resizeMapDIVs() {

// check the parent value...

var size = $('#map').parent().width();



if( $size < 640 ) {

//  ...and decrease...

} else {

//  ..or increase  as necessary

}

}

resizeMapDIVs();

$(window).resize(resizeMapDIVs);

});

Answer 4

Using Clay.js (https://github.com/zzarcon/clay) it's quite simple to detect changes on element size:

var el = new Clay('.element');

el.on('resize', function(size) {
    console.log(size.height, size.width);
});

Answer 5

This blog post helped me efficiently detect size changes to DOM elements.

http://www.backalleycoder.com/2013/03/18/cross-browser-event-based-element-resize-detection/

How to use this code...

AppConfig.addResizeListener(document.getElementById('id'), function () {
  //Your code to execute on resize.
});

Packaged code used by the example...

var AppConfig = AppConfig || {};
AppConfig.ResizeListener = (function () {
    var attachEvent = document.attachEvent;
    var isIE = navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident/);
    var requestFrame = (function () {
        var raf = window.requestAnimationFrame || window.mozRequestAnimationFrame || window.webkitRequestAnimationFrame ||
            function (fn) { return window.setTimeout(fn, 20); };
        return function (fn) { return raf(fn); };
    })();

    var cancelFrame = (function () {
        var cancel = window.cancelAnimationFrame || window.mozCancelAnimationFrame || window.webkitCancelAnimationFrame ||
               window.clearTimeout;
        return function (id) { return cancel(id); };
    })();

    function resizeListener(e) {
        var win = e.target || e.srcElement;
        if (win.__resizeRAF__) cancelFrame(win.__resizeRAF__);
        win.__resizeRAF__ = requestFrame(function () {
            var trigger = win.__resizeTrigger__;
            trigger.__resizeListeners__.forEach(function (fn) {
                fn.call(trigger, e);
            });
        });
    }

    function objectLoad(e) {
        this.contentDocument.defaultView.__resizeTrigger__ = this.__resizeElement__;
        this.contentDocument.defaultView.addEventListener('resize', resizeListener);
    }

    AppConfig.addResizeListener = function (element, fn) {
        if (!element.__resizeListeners__) {
            element.__resizeListeners__ = [];
            if (attachEvent) {
                element.__resizeTrigger__ = element;
                element.attachEvent('onresize', resizeListener);
            } else {
                if (getComputedStyle(element).position === 'static') element.style.position = 'relative';
                var obj = element.__resizeTrigger__ = document.createElement('object');
                obj.setAttribute('style', 'display: block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; height: 100%; width: 100%; overflow: hidden; pointer-events: none; z-index: -1;');
                obj.__resizeElement__ = element;
                obj.onload = objectLoad;
                obj.type = 'text/html';
                if (isIE) element.appendChild(obj);
                obj.data = 'about:blank';
                if (!isIE) element.appendChild(obj);
            }
        }
        element.__resizeListeners__.push(fn);
    };

    AppConfig.removeResizeListener = function (element, fn) {
        element.__resizeListeners__.splice(element.__resizeListeners__.indexOf(fn), 1);
        if (!element.__resizeListeners__.length) {
            if (attachEvent) element.detachEvent('onresize', resizeListener);
            else {
                element.__resizeTrigger__.contentDocument.defaultView.removeEventListener('resize', resizeListener);
                element.__resizeTrigger__ = !element.removeChild(element.__resizeTrigger__);
            }
        }
    }
})();

Note: AppConfig is a namespace/object I use for organizing reusable functions. Feel free to search and replace the name with anything you would like.

Answer 6

My jQuery plugin enables the "resize" event on all elements not just the window.

https://github.com/dustinpoissant/ResizeTriggering

$("#myElement") .resizeTriggering().on("resize", function(e){
  // Code to handle resize
});