measure-text-width

measure-text-width uses canvas to measure text width.

Installing

$ yarn add measure-text-width
# or 
$ npm install --save measure-text-width

Usage

 
import CreateWidthMeasurer from 'measure-text-width';
 
const measureWidth = CreateWidthMeasurer(window)
  .setFont('12px Arial');
 
const stringWidth = measureWidth('Hello world!'); // 63
 

API

measure-text-width exports one function, CreateWidthMeasurer.

CreateWidthMeasurer(window = this)

Creates widthMeasurer.

widthMeasurer(text)

Measures and returns width of text in pixels, rounded to integer.

widthMeasurer.setFont(font)

Sets font for canvas, as in CSS spec.

widthMeasurer.useElementFont(element)

Sets font for canvas, extracting passed Element's font via getComputedStyle.

License

MIT © Dmitriy Semyushkin