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I managed to get this to work (with jQuery): Please let me know if I misunderstood the question

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
<head>
 <style type="text/css">
    #scroll {
        position:realtive; width: 800px, heght: 400px;
   }
   #area {
        position:absolute; left: 0; top: 0;
   }
   #area div.category {
       width: 200px;
       display: block;
   }
 </style>
 <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.js" type="text/javascript" language="Javascript"></script>
 <script type="text/javascript">
 function resizeArea(){
      var width = 0;
      jQuery("#area").children().each(function(i){
          alert(this.offsetWidth);
          width += this.offsetWidth;
      });
      jQuery("#area").css('width', width);
    }
 </script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="scroll_area" id="scroll">
   <div class="area" id="area">
      <div class="category">
      [..]FIRST ALERT
      </div>
      <div class="category">
      [..]SECOND ALERT
      </div>
   </div>
 </div>
 <script type="text/javascript">resizeArea();</script>

 <br /><br /><br /><a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="resizeArea()">Fun Function Again</a>
</body>
</html>

Neurofluxation 2010-06-02 10:38:37

I test in my page, and bind resizeArea() to button, and it work correctly, but when i call resizeArea() in document.ready() it's not work( I don't know what cant load before dom:loaded..

Kein 2010-06-02 11:06:04

Yes, you example work correctly) Mae be i have some bug in my code...

Kein 2010-06-02 11:22:29

Can you accept this answer if it worked please? :)

Neurofluxation 2010-06-02 12:39:12

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