jQuery 1.8 box-sizing: width(), css(“width”), and outerWidth() One of the great new features in jQuery 1.8 is a built-in understanding of box-sizing: border-box which is supported by every modern browser. (Sorry, IE6 and IE7, please take one step back; I said modern browser.) If you showed people an element with a border on the screen and asked them the width of that element, they would naturally