Google Chrome is doing things wrong again
- by Stefan Liebenberg
Chrome is wrongly reporting width and height values for images during, or just after, load time. Jquery is used in this code example:
<img id='image01' alt='picture that is 145x134' src='/images/picture.jpg' />
<script>
var img = $( 'img#image01' )
img.width() // would return 145 in Firefox and 0 in Chrome.
img.height() // would return 134 in Firefox and 0 in Chrome.
</script>
If you put the script in a onload function, the result is the same. but if you run the code a few seconds after the page has loaded, chrome returns the correct result.
<script>
function example () {
var img = $( 'img#image01' );
img.width() // returns 145 in both Firefox and Chrome.
img.height() // returns 134 in both Firefox and Chrome.
}
window.setTimeout( example, 1000 )
</script>
Also if you specify the width and height values in the img tag, the script seems to work as expected in both Firefox and Chrome.
<img id='image01' src='/images/picture.jpg' width=145 height=134 />
But as you cannot always control the html input, this is not an ideal workaround. Can jQuery be patched with a better workaround for this problem? or will I need to specify the width and height for every image in my code?
