jQuery outerWidth() Method

jQuery Web Development Front End Technology

The outerWidth() method in jQuery is used to return the width of an element. The method includes padding and border.

Output

The syntax is as follows−

$(selector).outerWidth(margin)

Above, the margin is a Boolean value to specify whether or not to include the margin. TRUE is to include the margin.

Example

Let us now see an example to implement the jQuery outerWidth() method−

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
   $(document).ready(function(){
      $("button").click(function(){
         document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "<br>Outer Width of DIV = " + $("div").outerWidth()
      });
   });
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Rectangular Box</h2>
<div style="height:200px;width:500px;padding:30px;margin:1px;background-color:blue;"></div><br>
<button>Outer width of div</button>
<p id="demo"></p>
</body>
</html>

Output

This will produce the following output−

Click “Outer width of div” to get outer width−

AmitDiwan

Updated on: 30-Dec-2019

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