Question
Measuring the length of a piece of text
Hi,
I'm trying to take a piece of a longer text and display it so that it is exactly 4 lines long and 200 pixels wide. If I use the regular text string functions (right, left, mid, etc.) I can create 4 lines with a certain number of characters, but depending on the text, sometimes they are too long or so short that I could have fit another word on the line. Is there a function that takes into account the actual linear length in pixels of a line of text formatted in the current style? Also the original text could have HTML codes in it, so I would want to ignore these when selecting the text so that I don't count non-displaying characters or leave open ended HTML in my page.
If I have the wrong approach, any guidance would be appreciated.
I'm trying to take a piece of a longer text and display it so that it is exactly 4 lines long and 200 pixels wide. If I use the regular text string functions (right, left, mid, etc.) I can create 4 lines with a certain number of characters, but depending on the text, sometimes they are too long or so short that I could have fit another word on the line. Is there a function that takes into account the actual linear length in pixels of a line of text formatted in the current style? Also the original text could have HTML codes in it, so I would want to ignore these when selecting the text so that I don't count non-displaying characters or leave open ended HTML in my page.
If I have the wrong approach, any guidance would be appreciated.
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