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Mar 27.2003

Does anyone know how to get information about Fonts in Javascript?

What I mean is I want to dynamically make tables with some text inside them (namely, some kind of menu system)
I need to know how many pixel wide the whole text is so that the table width isn’t too big or too small.

For those familiar with Java, I want something equivalent to what the FontMetrics class does!

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@khalidali63Mar 27.2003 — With javascript you can not get the default values from browser unless they are explicitly declared in a document.

To do what you want ,my feeling is that you will have to decalre your fonts or any other property which you eant to access at run time like this

<table id="t1" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:cursive;"

etc and then in the with javascript you can access it like this

size = document.getElementById("t1").style.fontSize

and so on.

I hope some one has a better work around for you.

Ceers

Khalid
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@tim_gorauthorMar 27.2003 — Thank you but I've come up with (kinda) a workaround now which is quite neat, though still far from perfect -- what I'm doing now is making a hidden layer in which to insert the text, then getting the width of the whole layer by

layer.clientWidth

obviously doesn't work for longer strings so I'd still appreciate anyone with a better idea!
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@locittDec 16.2003 — hi tim_gor,

i've got the same problem and i want to get the width of a text to compare to the width of screen.

could you tell me more about your solution?

Thanks.

locitt.
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