[jquery] Total width of element (including padding and border) in jQuery

As in the subject, how can one get the total width of an element, including its border and padding, using jQuery? I've got the jQuery dimensions plugin, and running .width() on my 760px-wide, 10px padding DIV returns 760.

Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, but if my element manifests itself as 780 pixels wide and Firebug tells me that there's 10px padding on it, but calling .width() only gives 760, I'd be hard pressed to see how.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Just for simplicity I encapsulated Andreas Grech's great answer above in some functions. For those who want a bit of cut-and-paste happiness.

function getTotalWidthOfObject(object) {

    if(object == null || object.length == 0) {
        return 0;
    }

    var value       = object.width();
    value           += parseInt(object.css("padding-left"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("padding-right"), 10); //Total Padding Width
    value           += parseInt(object.css("margin-left"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("margin-right"), 10); //Total Margin Width
    value           += parseInt(object.css("borderLeftWidth"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("borderRightWidth"), 10); //Total Border Width
    return value;
}

function  getTotalHeightOfObject(object) {

    if(object == null || object.length == 0) {
        return 0;
    }

    var value       = object.height();
    value           += parseInt(object.css("padding-top"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("padding-bottom"), 10); //Total Padding Width
    value           += parseInt(object.css("margin-top"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("margin-bottom"), 10); //Total Margin Width
    value           += parseInt(object.css("borderTopWidth"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("borderBottomWidth"), 10); //Total Border Width
    return value;
}

$(document).ready(function(){     
$("div.width").append($("div.width").width()+" px");
$("div.innerWidth").append($("div.innerWidth").innerWidth()+" px");   
$("div.outerWidth").append($("div.outerWidth").outerWidth()+" px");         
});


<div class="width">Width of this div container without including padding is: </div>  
<div class="innerWidth">width of this div container including padding is: </div> 
<div class="outerWidth">width of this div container including padding and margin is:     </div>

looks like outerWidth is broken in the latest version of jquery.

The discrepancy happens when

the outer div is floated, the inner div has the width set (smaller than the outer div) the inner div has style="margin:auto"

Just for simplicity I encapsulated Andreas Grech's great answer above in some functions. For those who want a bit of cut-and-paste happiness.

function getTotalWidthOfObject(object) {

    if(object == null || object.length == 0) {
        return 0;
    }

    var value       = object.width();
    value           += parseInt(object.css("padding-left"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("padding-right"), 10); //Total Padding Width
    value           += parseInt(object.css("margin-left"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("margin-right"), 10); //Total Margin Width
    value           += parseInt(object.css("borderLeftWidth"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("borderRightWidth"), 10); //Total Border Width
    return value;
}

function  getTotalHeightOfObject(object) {

    if(object == null || object.length == 0) {
        return 0;
    }

    var value       = object.height();
    value           += parseInt(object.css("padding-top"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("padding-bottom"), 10); //Total Padding Width
    value           += parseInt(object.css("margin-top"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("margin-bottom"), 10); //Total Margin Width
    value           += parseInt(object.css("borderTopWidth"), 10) + parseInt(object.css("borderBottomWidth"), 10); //Total Border Width
    return value;
}

same browsers may return string for border width, in this parseInt will return NaN so make sure you parse value to int properly.

        var getInt = function (string) {
            if (typeof string == "undefined" || string == "")
                return 0;
            var tempInt = parseInt(string);

            if (!(tempInt <= 0 || tempInt > 0))
                return 0;
            return tempInt;
        }

        var liWidth = $(this).width();
        liWidth += getInt($(this).css("padding-left"));
        liWidth += getInt($(this).css("padding-right"));
        liWidth += getInt($(this).css("border-left-width"));
        liWidth += getInt($(this).css("border-right-width"));

Anyone else stumbling upon this answer should note that jQuery now (>=1.3) has outerHeight/outerWidth functions to retrieve the width including padding/borders, e.g.

$(elem).outerWidth(); // Returns the width + padding + borders

To include the margin as well, simply pass true:

$(elem).outerWidth( true ); // Returns the width + padding + borders + margins

same browsers may return string for border width, in this parseInt will return NaN so make sure you parse value to int properly.

        var getInt = function (string) {
            if (typeof string == "undefined" || string == "")
                return 0;
            var tempInt = parseInt(string);

            if (!(tempInt <= 0 || tempInt > 0))
                return 0;
            return tempInt;
        }

        var liWidth = $(this).width();
        liWidth += getInt($(this).css("padding-left"));
        liWidth += getInt($(this).css("padding-right"));
        liWidth += getInt($(this).css("border-left-width"));
        liWidth += getInt($(this).css("border-right-width"));

Anyone else stumbling upon this answer should note that jQuery now (>=1.3) has outerHeight/outerWidth functions to retrieve the width including padding/borders, e.g.

$(elem).outerWidth(); // Returns the width + padding + borders

To include the margin as well, simply pass true:

$(elem).outerWidth( true ); // Returns the width + padding + borders + margins