Is there anyway to check if an element has overflowed?

Question

My site has numerous horizontal lists of words. If the row has too many words to display in one row, it needs to display an "expand" button. Right now I determine if the row is full by adding up the estimated widths of the letters, but I am wondering if there is a simpler way to do this. Is there any way using javascript or any library (especially YUI or jQuery) to determine if an element has overflow?

Answer 1

I assume you're referring to the overflow css property of DOM nodes. In that case you could compare the scrollWidth as opposed to the clientWidth.

Understanding offsetWidth, clientWidth, scrollWidth and -Height, respectively