Is it possible to listen to a "style change" event?

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Is it possible to create an event listener in jQuery that can be bound to any style changes? For example, if I want to "do" something when an element changes dimensions, or any other changes in the style attribute I could do:

$('div').bind('style', function() {
    console.log($(this).css('height'));
});

$('div').height(100); // yields '100'

It would be really useful.

Any ideas?

UPDATE

Sorry for answering this myself, but I wrote a neat solution that might fit someone else:

(function() {
    var ev = new $.Event('style'),
        orig = $.fn.css;
    $.fn.css = function() {
        $(this).trigger(ev);
        return orig.apply(this, arguments);
    }
})();

This will temporary override the internal prototype.css method and the redefine it with a trigger at the end. So it works like this:

$('p').bind('style', function(e) {
    console.log( $(this).attr('style') );
});

$('p').width(100);
$('p').css('color','red');
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11 Answers

Since jQuery is open-source, I would guess that you could tweak the css function to call a function of your choice every time it is invoked (passing the jQuery object). Of course, you'll want to scour the jQuery code to make sure there is nothing else it uses internally to set CSS properties. Ideally, you'd want to write a separate plugin for jQuery so that it does not interfere with the jQuery library itself, but you'll have to decide whether or not that is feasible for your project.

Josh_Stodola_544200

As others have suggested, if you have control over whatever code is changing the style of the element you could fire a custom event when you change the element's height:

$('#blah').bind('height-changed',function(){...});
...
$('#blah').css({height:'100px'});
$('#blah').trigger('height-changed');

Otherwise, although pretty resource-intensive, you could set a timer to periodically check for changes to the element's height...

user_2595810

Interesting question. The problem is that height() does not accept a callback, so you wouldn't be able to fire up a callback. Use either animate() or css() to set the height and then trigger the custom event in the callback. Here is an example using animate() , tested and works (demo), as a proof of concept :

$('#test').bind('style', function() {
    alert($(this).css('height'));
});

$('#test').animate({height: 100},function(){
$(this).trigger('style');
});
user_539600

There is no inbuilt support for the style change event in jQuery or in java script. But jQuery supports to create custom event and listen to it but every time there is a change, you should have a way to trigger it on yourself. So it will not be a complete solution.

user_1122220

How about jQuery cssHooks?

Maybe I do not understand the question, but what you are searching for is easily done with cssHooks, without changing css() function.

copy from documentation:

(function( $ ) {

// First, check to see if cssHooks are supported
if ( !$.cssHooks ) {
  // If not, output an error message
  throw( new Error( "jQuery 1.4.3 or above is required for this plugin to work" ) );
}

// Wrap in a document ready call, because jQuery writes
// cssHooks at this time and will blow away your functions
// if they exist.
$(function () {
  $.cssHooks[ "someCSSProp" ] = {
    get: function( elem, computed, extra ) {
      // Handle getting the CSS property
    },
    set: function( elem, value ) {
      // Handle setting the CSS value
    }
  };
});

})( jQuery );

https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.cssHooks/

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