jQuery remove width doesn't work

Question

I have the following jQuery to check how wide a should be if I want to fit my text (just for testing purposes), but it always gives me the same width back as my own width, what am I doing wrong?

var newWidth = $(this).clone().insertAfter($(this));
newWidth.width("");
console.log(newWidth.width() + ' ' + $(this).width());
newWidth.remove();

For example, in my HTML I have an tag that links to a German site, normally my is 100 px width. but now, the title of this German site is "Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften" which is way too long text to fit in 100px. I want to see how wide my should be, with my current font-size etc, in order to fit the whole text on one line.

What are you expecting this to do: `newWidth.width("");` ??? I guess you mean: `newWidth.css('width','');` to reset any CSS width rule apply to element in line — A. Wolff, Mar 05 '14 at 13:05
What exactly is this code supposed to do? It's very confusing. — Liam, Mar 05 '14 at 13:06
would it not be `newWidth.attr("Width","0px")` or `newWidth.css("Width","0px")` or similar ? — Mark Broadhurst, Mar 05 '14 at 13:06
@SaintGerbil, no..https://api.jquery.com/width/ width would not be an attribute — Liam, Mar 05 '14 at 13:07
Also if your using jquery to calculate width, 99% of the time your CSS is wrong. — Liam, Mar 05 '14 at 13:08
@Liam I'd go "with should hopefully not be but cant be too sure". — Mark Broadhurst, Mar 05 '14 at 13:09
Now please improve your question, no one seems to know what exactly you are looking for — A. Wolff, Mar 05 '14 at 13:11
sorry, was indeed unclear with my text. this [link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1582534/calculating-text-width-with-jquery) did the trick! — Danny Hobo, Mar 05 '14 at 13:18

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 05 '14 at 13:08

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You can use:

 newWidth.css('width', 'auto')

or

 newWidth.css('width', '');

answered Mar 05 '14 at 13:08

Milind Anantwar

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