How to know when an DOM element moves or is resized

Question

I'd like to know if there is a DOM event to listen for that tells me when a DOM element moves is repositioned or is resized on the page. I am not talking about an elements being drag/dropped. An example is if a have a list of three items on a page, and I use JS to remove one of the top two list items from the page (or hide it or whatever), I'd like to attach a handler to run when the third list item gets moved up in the page.

I am using jQuery, so plain javascript or jQuery answers are acceptable.

Maybe there are no move/position/resize events at the element level, so if there is a page/doc level event that will tell me that the page was repainted and I can check if I need to call a function again?

Background

I put a transparent div over an element while a webservice call is made to delete that element. Since I need to absolutely position that overlay div, I want it to track the element that it covers initially. In effect anchoring it to the base element.

Answer 1

I don't think this solution would be relevant after so long, but there's an excellent cross-browser solution based on the overflow and underflow events presented here

To enable our resize listening magic, we inject an object element into the target element, set a list of special styles to hide it from view, and monitor it for resize – it acts as a trigger for alerting us when the target element parent is resized.

The <object> element's content has a native resize event, just like a window.