String length in pixels?

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August 12, 2009
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Hello~

Is there a way to determine the width of a string in pixels, rather than characters? Thanks!

KC

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TLC-IT

Inspiring

If you are asking for that, then you aren't allowing the HTML markup-language to do its appointed job.

You should describe "the size of things" and "the length of things" and "the position of things" in terms of typographer's terms, such as em and point, or simply generic terms like larger. Then, use styles that enable the browser to come up with an arrangement of elements.

These days, you've got no idea how big the user's screen is.

You don't know if the guy reading your page is nineteen years old or (uhh...) fifty.

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Anonymous

I managed to find a combination of CSS and JavaScript that did what I needed it to, without hard-coding the widths. Thanks!

BKBK

Community Expert

a combination of CSS and JavaScript

Indeed. I too was thinking about something like that. Put the string in a div or span and give the tag an ID. Then write Javascript that would, on clicking, for example, find the width of document.getElementById('theTagId').

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mack_

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This is not a ColdFusion related question but a client side question

because it depends on the font you're using to display the string (for

example using Courier and Times New Roman gives you 2 different

widths) and the context in which you're displaying the font: Java

Applet, Flash, SVG, plain simple in browser, etc

Mack

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Anonymous

I thought that might be the case. Do you know of a good way to calculate the width when it's just displaying in the browser, nothing fancy, and with a standard font (Arial, in this case)?