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How can you find the height of text on an HTML canvas?
The spec has a context.measureText(text) function that will tell you how much width it would require to print that text, but I can't find a way to find out how tall it is. I know it's based on the ...
29
votes
14answers
22k views
JavaScript Scale Text to Fit in Fixed Div
In JavaScript/jQuery, how can I scale a varying-length line of text inside a fixed-width Div so that the one line always fits inside the Div (as one line)?
Thanks.
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votes
6answers
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disable text highlighting on double click in jQuery
I have this jQuery toggle. It work fine.
<ul>
<li>Go to the store</li>
<li>Pick up dinner</li>
<li>Debug crash</li>
<li>Take a ...
24
votes
4answers
24k views
Decode & back to & in javascript
I have strings like
var str = 'One & two & three';
rendered into HTML by the web server. I need to transform those strings into
'One & two & three'
Currently, that's ...
16
votes
1answer
8k views
svg text element width
I'm working on some ecmascript/javascript for an svg file and need to get the width and height of a text element so I can resize a rectangle that surrounds it. In html I would be able to use the ...
14
votes
1answer
7k views
How to modify raphael text?
After instantiating Raphael text like so
var t = paper.text(50, 50, "Raphaël\nkicks\nbutt!");
how do I go about then modifying that text?
t.text = "test"; did not work for me.
13
votes
7answers
4k views
Webkit-based blurry/distorted text post-animation via translate3d
This issue appears to affect all WebKit-based browsers, including the iPhone.
First some background. The site I'm working on uses a JavaScript-based 'slider' animation that is basically identical to ...
12
votes
5answers
8k views
Most elegant way to force a TEXTAREA element to line-wrap, *regardless* of whitespace
Html Textarea elements only wrap when they reach a space or tab character. This is fine, until the user types a looooooooooooooooooooooong enough word. I'm looking for a way to strictly enforce line ...
11
votes
3answers
2k views
efficient method to replace multiple words in text
Using JavaScript I need to efficiently remove ~10000 keywords from a ~100000 word document, of which ~1000 will be keywords. What approach would you suggest?
Would a massive regular expression be ...
10
votes
2answers
5k views
Cut off text in a div if it exceeds set width?
On a website I am working on users can add a heading to a section of a page.A simple example:
M11-001 - loss of container and goods from Manchester
With some headings the content can be quite ...
10
votes
2answers
9k views
<input> text change events
Is there a library that can extract all text events from an <input type=text> (or contentEditable -- any one-line input field) element?
In particular, I need to know whenever the text is ...
10
votes
4answers
3k views
Fix a character to text input box using javascript/jquery
I am looking for a way to 'fix' a dollar symbol $ to a text input box eg <input type="text" value="$" /> but make it not possible for the default value to be removed, so that whatever the user ...
9
votes
2answers
17k views
How to remove spaces from a string using JavaScript?
I'm using jquery and now I need to remove spaces in the string retrieved as a parameter (file name)..
For instance:
I have: '/var/www/site/Brand new document.docx'
I would like to get: ...
9
votes
8answers
8k views
8
votes
3answers
3k views
JQuery Animated Text
It is ridiculously hard to find easy/simple animated text. Like the "Implosion" on this website
http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-text-animation/full_screen_preview/233445
but I'd have to pay for it. ...
