Total width of element (including padding and border) in jQuery

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/349705/total-width-of-element-including-padding-and-border-in-jquery

The original answer was written prior to jQuery 1.3, and the functions that existed at the time where not adequate by themselves to calculate the whole width.

Now, as J-P correctly states, jQuery has the functions outerWidth and outerHeight which include the border and padding by default, and also the margin if the first argument of the function is true