Calculate largest width of a set of elements using jQuery

Question

I have made a quick Jsbin: http://jsbin.com/ujabew/edit#javascript,html,live

What i\'m trying to achieve is to find out which is the largest

Answer 1

Here:

var maxWidth = Math.max.apply( null, $( elems ).map( function () {
    return $( this ).outerWidth( true );
}).get() );

Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/rM4UG/