I'm appending a DOM element like this:
this.store.state.runtime.UIWrap.appendChild(newElement)
When I immediately try to measure the new element's width I get 2.
I tried:
setTimeout()window.requestAnimationFrame()MutationObserverThe above works very unreliably, like 50% of the time. Only when I set a large timeout like 500ms it worked.
This happens only on mobile.
This is the workaround that I'm using, but it's ugly:
function getWidthFromStyle(el) {
return parseFloat(getComputedStyle(el, null).width.replace('px', ''))
}
function getWidthFromBoundingClientRect(el) {
return el.getBoundingClientRect().width
}
console.log(getWidthFromBoundingClientRect(newElement))
while (getWidthFromBoundingClientRect(newElement) < 50) {
await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 500))
console.log(getWidthFromBoundingClientRect(newElement))
}
I tried with both functions getWidthFromStyle() and getWidthFromBoundingClientRect() - no difference. The width gets calculated properly after a couple of cycles.
I also tried using MutationObserver without success.
Is there a way to know when the DOM is fully updated and styled before I try to measure an element's width/height?
P.S. I'm not using any framework. this.store.state.runtime... is my own implementation of a Store, similar to Vue.
EDIT: The size of the element depended on an image inside it and I was trying to measure the element before the image had loaded. Silly.
You can use something like this:
export function waitElement(elementId) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
const element = document.getElementById(elementId);
if (element) {
resolve(element);
} else {
let tries = 10;
const interval = setInterval(() => {
const element = document.getElementById(elementId);
if (element) {
clearInterval(interval);
resolve(element);
}
if (tries-- < 0) {
clearInterval(interval);
reject(new Error("Element not found"));
}
}, 100);
}
});
}
it can done with MutationObserver.
doesn't this method solve your problem?
const div = document.querySelector("div");
const span = document.querySelector("span");
const observer = new MutationObserver(function () {
console.log("new width", size());
});
observer.observe(div, { subtree: true, childList: true });
function addElem() {
setTimeout(() => {
const newSpan = document.createElement("span");
newSpan.innerHTML = "second";
div.appendChild(newSpan);
console.log("element added");
}, 3000);
}
function size() {
return div.getBoundingClientRect().width;
}
console.log("old width", size());
addElem();div {
display: inline-block;
border: 1px dashed;
}
span {
background: gold;
}<div>
<span>one</span>
</div>