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width( )

Get the current computed, pixel, width of the first matched element.
In jQuery 1.2, this method is able to find the width of the window and document.

Examples:
Show various widths. Note the values are from the iframe so might be smaller than you expected. The yellow highlight shows the iframe body.

    function showWidth(ele, w) {
      $("div").text("The width for the " + ele + 
                    " is " + w + "px.");
    }
    $("#getp").click(function () { 
      showWidth("paragraph", $("p").width()); 
    });
    $("#getd").click(function () { 
      showWidth("document", $(document).width()); 
    });
    $("#getw").click(function () { 
      showWidth("window", $(window).width()); 
    });



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
                    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <script src="../jquery-latest.js"></script>
  
  <script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    
    function showWidth(ele, w) {
      $("div").text("The width for the " + ele + 
                    " is " + w + "px.");
    }
    $("#getp").click(function () { 
      showWidth("paragraph", $("p").width()); 
    });
    $("#getd").click(function () { 
      showWidth("document", $(document).width()); 
    });
    $("#getw").click(function () { 
      showWidth("window", $(window).width()); 
    });

  });
  </script>
  <style>
  body { background:yellow; }
  button { font-size:12px; margin:2px; }
  p { width:150px; border:1px red solid; }
  div { color:red; font-weight:bold;  }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <button id="getp">Get Paragraph Width</button>
  <button id="getd">Get Document Width</button>
  <button id="getw">Get Window Width</button>
  <div> </div>
  <p>
    Sample paragraph to test width
  </p>
</body>
</html>

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width( val )

Set the CSS width of every matched element.
If no explicit unit was specified (like 'em' or '%') then "px" is concatenated to the value.
Arguments:
valString or Number
Set the CSS 'width' property to the specified value.

Examples:
To set the width of each div on click to 30px plus a color change.

    $("div").one('click', function () {
      $(this).width(30)
             .css({cursor:"auto", "background-color":"blue"});
    });



<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
                    "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
  <script src="../jquery-latest.js"></script>
  
  <script>
  $(document).ready(function(){
    
    $("div").one('click', function () {
      $(this).width(30)
             .css({cursor:"auto", "background-color":"blue"});
    });

  });
  </script>
  <style>
  div { width:70px; height:50px; float:left; margin:5px;
        background:red; cursor:pointer; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
  <div></div>
</body>
</html>

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