window.resize event firing in Internet Explorer

As you are aware, in Internet Explorer, the window.resize event is fired when any element on the page is resized. It does not matter whether the page element is resized through assigning/changing its height or style attribute, by simply adding a child element to it, or whatever -- even though the element resizing does not affect the dimensions of the viewport itself.

In my application, this is causing a nasty recursion, since in my window.resize handler I am resizing some <li> elements, which in turn re-fires window.resize, etc. Again, this is only a problem in IE.

Is there any way to prevent window.resize from firing in IE in response to elements on the page being resized?

I should also mention that I'm using jQuery.

I just discovered another problem which might help you.

I am using jQuery and I have window.resize event to call a function which will re-position the div appended to the body.

Now when I set the LEFT css property of that appended div, the window.resize event get trigger for NO GOOD REASON.

It results in an infinite loop, triggering the window.resize again and again.

The code without fix:

$(window).resize(function(){
    var onResize = function(){
        //The method which alter some css properties triggers 
        //window.resize again and it ends in an infinite loop
        someMethod();
    }
    window.clearTimeout(resizeTimeout);
    resizeTimeout = window.setTimeout(onResize, 10);
});

Solution:

var winWidth = $(window).width(),
    winHeight = $(window).height();

$(window).resize(function(){
    var onResize = function(){
        //The method which alter some css properties triggers 
        //window.resize again and it ends in an infinite loop
        someMethod();
    }

    //New height and width
    var winNewWidth = $(window).width(),
        winNewHeight = $(window).height();

    // compare the new height and width with old one
    if(winWidth!=winNewWidth || winHeight!=winNewHeight){
        window.clearTimeout(resizeTimeout);
        resizeTimeout = window.setTimeout(onResize, 10);
    }
    //Update the width and height
    winWidth = winNewWidth;
    winHeight = winNewHeight;
});

So basically it will check if the height or width is changed (which will happen ONLY when you actually resize with window).

this made sense to me and seems to work in IE7 and above:

    //variables to confirm window height and width
    var lastWindowHeight = $(window).height();
    var lastWindowWidth = $(window).width();

    $(window).resize(function() {

        //confirm window was actually resized
        if($(window).height()!=lastWindowHeight || $(window).width()!=lastWindowWidth){

            //set this windows size
            lastWindowHeight = $(window).height();
            lastWindowWidth = $(window).width();

            //call my function
            myfunction();


        }
    });

Bind your resize listener with .one() so that it unbinds itself after firing. Then you can do anything you want, so long as at the end you rebind the resize listener. I found the easiest way to do this is by putting the resize listener in an anonymous function like so:

var resizeListener = function(){
  $(window).one("resize",function(){ //unbinds itself every time it fires

    //resize things

    setTimeout(resizeListener,100); //rebinds itself after 100ms
  });
}
resizeListener();

You don't technically need the setTimeout wrapped around the resizeListener() but I'd threw it in there as a just-in-case and for some extra throttling.