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HTML
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://github.com/cowboy/jquery-resize/raw/v1.1/jquery.ba-resize.min.js"></script>
<div id='parent'>
<div id='child'></div>
</div>
CSS
#parent {
width:200px;
height:200px;
border:1px solid black;
}
#child {
width:180px;
height:180px;
border:1px solid black;
}
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#parent').bind("resize", resizeChild);
setTimeout(resizeParent, 2000);
});
function resizeChild()
{
$("#child").css('width', $('#parent').width() - 20);
$("#child").css('height', $('#parent').height() - 20);
}
function resizeParent()
{
$("#parent").css('width', '100px')
$("#parent").css('height', '100px')
}