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Wow! As simple as that!

Thanks, Jim. It worked for me, too.

 

But why do you suppose it didn't work using the variable option?

 

Thanks again!

Ess'iele
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Hmmmm...  

 

Here's what I can see: the wSize variable isn't being used in the conditional statement (in your example), so console log will aways show the value that was assigned to it at the beginning.

 

I've made the amendment in my project, as you suggested, and it works fine... still a bit puzzled, though.

 

Once again, many thanks for your input, Jim. It's very much appreciated.

 

Ess'iele
... seeing things.

Just had a thought... maybe if the variable was local instead of global... gonna try it.

Ess'iele
... seeing things.

Phew! Suddenly the puzzle is no more.

Really appreciate you sticking with me on this one, Jim.

Ess'iele
... seeing things.

It doesn't have to be declared locally. But the value needs to be assigned from within the resize callback! Where it is declared is irrelevant.

It's just that you'd assigned the value only once, when the page was loaded.

If you declare where you did originally, you'd create a closure variable. In this case, there's no sense in doing that, and, yes, I would agree you should move the declaration inside of the callback. But it would still work with the declaration (not the assignment) in the original location. Closure variables can be quite handy, though, in other scenarios, as any functions declared within the scope of closure variables can access them.