TextMetrics: width property
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Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The read-only width property of the TextMetrics interface contains the text's advance width (the width of that inline box) in CSS pixels.
Examples
Start with this <canvas> element:
html
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
You can get a TextMetrics object using the following code:
js
const canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
let text = ctx.measureText("foo"); // TextMetrics object
text.width; // 16;
Specifications
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