I've tried finding an understandable answer to this, but given up.
In order to have dymnamic content (like blog posts and images) in a horizontal website (like on thehorizontalway.com) you must set a fixed width for the BODY in pixles, right? Because you use floated elements inside it that otherwise would break and wrap down the page, depending on the browsers width.
EDIT! This specific value can be calculated with jQuery, thanks for that :) In this example, an additional value is added to the total size, which can be used for content before the floated elements. Now the body gets a dynamic width!
My initial thought was to have jQuery calculate this for us: ( 'EACH POSTS WIDTH' * 'NUMBER OF POSTS' ) + 250 (for the extra content)
HTML code
<body style="width: ;"> <!-- Here we want a DYNAMIC value -->
<div id="container">
<div id="menu"></div> <!-- Example of extra content before the floats -->
<div class="post">Lorem</div>
<div class="post">Lorem</div>
<div class="post">Lorem</div> <!-- Floated elements that we want the sizes of -->
<div class="post">Lorem</div>
</div>
...
<!-- So if these posts were 300px exept the last that was 500px wide, then the BODY WIDTH should be ( 300+300+300+500 ) + 250 [#menu] = 1650px -->
The result and answer from Alconja
$(document).ready(function() {
var width = 0;
$('.post').each(function() {
width += $(this).outerWidth( true );
});
$('body').css('width', width + 250);
});
Thanks so much!