How do I get text width in pixels, using JavaScript or jQuery? [duplicate]

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I want to get textarea text width. How do I get text width in pixels?

I do not want the text length.

how about checking this first..?::stackoverflow.com/questions/1582534/… — Sudhir Bastakoti
– Sudhir Bastakoti, Commented Mar 20, 2012 at 7:18

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-03 13:33:13Z

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Simply wrap the text in a (invisible) span and use jQuerys .width() to get the width.

Note that you should not, like others said, use a div as it's a block-element - and depending on where/how you insert that, a block-element may auto-expand to the full available width and give bad results.

edited Feb 3, 2016 at 13:33

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answered Mar 20, 2012 at 7:19

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