outerWidth()

[songofchrist@…]

Using Google Chrome a simple call to $(window).outerWidth() results in the message "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'width' of undefined". Same thing in Firefox and IE. Function worked fine in previous releases. Hope you can manage a fix. Keep up the good work.

[jitter]

Can you elaborate on this? In previous version $(window).outerWidth() returns NaN for me.

​test case

[anonymous]

Replying to jitter:

Can you elaborate on this? In previous version $(window).outerWidth() returns NaN for me.

​test case

Yeah, that's what I mean. That's what you would expect -- a result that can be tested in a true/false fashion (in my code, the object outerWidth() is called on may be something besides window, something that does have an outer width value; $(window) is the default if nothing else is provided). The problem seems to be something internal. In the newest version, I don't get NaN. I get the internal error mentioned above, and the script stops executing. If we could get it to return NaN, that'd be great. Hope that helps.

[snover]

So I guess we need to check that style properties exist in the cssHooks for width/height, though presumably we will end up returning undefined instead of NaN when all is said and done.

[snover]

Yay for quick release cycles. This is fixed in currently available release versions of Chrome.

[jitter]

What about FF and IE (Opera?) original reporter claims it fails there too.

[scottgonzalez]

This is not fixed, even in latest Chrome and latest jQuery.

[scottgonzalez]

Also, as mentioned by the original reporter and jitter, this isn't a Chrome or WebKit specific bug.

[mikesherov]

Just to beat a dead horse here, here are 2 JsFiddles "NaN" returned in jQuery 1.3.2 : ​http://jsfiddle.net/kn3WM/ "Script Error." error in jQuery 1.4.4 : ​http://jsfiddle.net/jSYRG/

[mikesherov]

On the other hand, the documentation for this method specifically says: "This method is not applicable to window and document objects; for these, use .width() instead." So I don't think it's fair to expect consistent results across versions for this.

[mikesherov]

​https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/391

[Timmy Willison]

Return null for outer/inner width/height calls on window/document. Fixes #7557.

Changeset: edb2286544270dc53550180e06668e61c231fb5d

[rp@…]

Seems like $myelement.outerWidth() does not work if your page is in an iframe. Has that being tested before closing the bug? Should I open a separate ticket for that?