{"id":15342,"date":"2011-11-30T22:01:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?page_id=15342"},"modified":"2011-11-30T22:01:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:01:37","slug":"animate-heightwidth-to-auto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/snippets\/jquery\/animate-heightwidth-to-auto\/","title":{"rendered":"Animate Height\/Width to &#8220;Auto&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not possible to do <code>thing.animate({ \"height\": \"auto\" });<\/code>. So this is Darcy Clarke&#8217;s method to allow that to work. You essentially clone the element, remove the fixed heights currently inflicting the element, and measure\/save the value. Then you animate the real element to that value.<\/p>\n<pre rel=\"jQuery\"><code>jQuery.fn.animateAuto = function(prop, speed, callback){\r\n    var elem, height, width;\r\n    return this.each(function(i, el){\r\n        el = jQuery(el), elem = el.clone().css({\"height\":\"auto\",\"width\":\"auto\"}).appendTo(\"body\");\r\n        height = elem.css(\"height\"),\r\n        width = elem.css(\"width\"),\r\n        elem.remove();\r\n        \r\n        if(prop === \"height\")\r\n            el.animate({\"height\":height}, speed, callback);\r\n        else if(prop === \"width\")\r\n            el.animate({\"width\":width}, speed, callback);  \r\n        else if(prop === \"both\")\r\n            el.animate({\"width\":width,\"height\":height}, speed, callback);\r\n    });  \r\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Usage<\/p>\n<pre rel=\"jQuery\"><code>$(\".animateHeight\").bind(\"click\", function(e){\r\n    $(\".test\").animateAuto(\"height\", 1000); \r\n});\r\n\r\n$(\".animateWidth\").bind(\"click\", function(e){\r\n    $(\".test\").animateAuto(\"width\", 1000); \r\n});\r\n\r\n$(\".animateBoth\").bind(\"click\", function(e){\r\n    $(\".test\").animateAuto(\"both\", 1000); \r\n});<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not possible to do thing.animate({ &#8220;height&#8221;: &#8220;auto&#8221; });. So this is Darcy Clarke&#8217;s method to allow that to work. You essentially clone the element, remove the fixed heights currently inflicting the element, and measure\/save the value. Then you animate the real element to that value. jQuery.fn.animateAuto = function(prop, speed, callback){ var elem, height, width; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":3245,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-snippet.php","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":332875,"url":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/almanac\/properties\/a\/aspect-ratio\/","url_meta":{"origin":15342,"position":0},"title":"aspect-ratio","date":"January 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The CSS property aspect-ratio lets you create boxes that maintain proportional dimensions where the height and width of a box are calculated automatically as a ratio. 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