You can try the code in the following snippet, it covers your needs using plain javascript. (run the code snippet and click full page link to trigger the alert that the div is resized if you want to test it.).
Based on the fact that this is a
setInterval
of 100 milliseconds, i would dare to say that my PC did not find it too much CPU hungry. (0.1% of CPU was used as total for all opened tabs in Chrome at the time tested.). But then again this is for just one div, if you would like to do this for a large amount of elements then yes it could be very CPU hungry.You could always use a click event to stop the div-resize sniffing anyway.
var width = 0;
var interval = setInterval(function(){
if(width <= 0){
width = document.getElementById("test_div").clientWidth;
}
if(document.getElementById("test_div").clientWidth!==width) {
alert('resized div');
width = document.getElementById("test_div").clientWidth;
}
}, 100);
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<div id="test_div" style="width: 100%; min-height: 30px; border: 1px dashed pink;">
<input type="button" value="button 1" />
<input type="button" value="button 2" />
<input type="button" value="button 3" />
</div>
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You can check the fiddle also
UPDATE
var width = 0;
function myInterval() {
var interval = setInterval(function(){
if(width <= 0){
width = document.getElementById("test_div").clientWidth;
}
if(document.getElementById("test_div").clientWidth!==width) {
alert('resized');
width = document.getElementById("test_div").clientWidth;
}
}, 100);
return interval;
}
var interval = myInterval();
document.getElementById("clickMe").addEventListener( "click" , function() {
if(typeof interval!=="undefined") {
clearInterval(interval);
alert("stopped div-resize sniffing");
}
});
document.getElementById("clickMeToo").addEventListener( "click" , function() {
myInterval();
alert("started div-resize sniffing");
});
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<div id="test_div" style="width: 100%; min-height: 30px; border: 1px dashed pink;">
<input type="button" value="button 1" id="clickMe" />
<input type="button" value="button 2" id="clickMeToo" />
<input type="button" value="button 3" />
</div>
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Updated Fiddle