I want to get textarea text width. How do I get text width in pixels?
I do not want the text length.
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You mean the width of your textarea? – MD Sayem Ahmed Mar 20 '12 at 07:17
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2how about checking this first..?::http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1582534/calculating-text-width-with-jquery – Sudhir Bastakoti Mar 20 '12 at 07:18
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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.
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