dimensions are unretrievable on an element whose parent is hidden and does not have any styles set

[samuel]

<span id="test" style="display:none;">ffffff</span> $("#test").width() OK

but <div id="mydiv" style="display:none;"> <span id="test"> ffffff</span> </div>

$("#test").width() is 0 Error

I can`t get the width when the span in a hidden div

[Timmy Willison]

​http://jsfiddle.net/timmywil/S8H2w/1/

It would be great if we could get this working, but it's not easy.

Related to #9300. This is different in that this element does not have a width set in its styles to retrieve as a fallback.

[Mike Sherov <mike.sherov@…>]

I suppose instead of doing jQuery.swap() on the element itself, we could jQuery.swap all the "display:none;" parents of the element as well... that's a brute force approach, but it may work?

[dmethvin]

I think we decided this was too gruesome to handle long ago. Mike Sherov's method will often work but would potentially be very slow in the general case. I don't think we'd want to be an enabler of bad practice.

[dmethvin]

Duplicate of #7618.