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Is there a function for calculating the dimension (not length) of a st

Is there a function for calculating the dimension (not length) of a st

livium	2 Jul, 2009 - 09:44 AM Post #1
D.I.C Regular Joined: 21 Dec, 2008 Posts: 294 My Contributions	Is there a function for calculating the dimension (not length) of a string? Because the dimension of 'a' is bigger than that of 'l'. I need such a function very baddly because i wanna calculate the number of spaces that i must put between two strings that are put in a fixed div, so that the first string is align to the left of the div and the other is align to the right of it. So... is there such a function?
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Dantheman	RE: Is There A Function For Calculating The Dimension (not Length) Of A St 2 Jul, 2009 - 10:12 AM Post #2
D.I.C Regular Joined: 27 May, 2009 Posts: 445 Thanked: 25 times My Contributions	Functions deal with the string data. The dimension is not a string data. It's a font-dependent, screen-dependent, platform-dependent, monitor-dependent .... attribute. Use a monospaced font, then every character will have the same dimension.
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RudiVisser	RE: Is There A Function For Calculating The Dimension (not Length) Of A St 2 Jul, 2009 - 10:18 AM Post #3
.. does not guess solutions Joined: 5 Jun, 2009 Posts: 1,872 Thanked: 137 times Dream Kudos: 125 Expert In: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, C# My Contributions	If you use CSS pt (points) instead of px (pixels) for positioning, it's supposed to make it easier to work with situations like this. I don't really believe it, but hey. You could also make your own function, store widths of characters in an array, loop through the string, and add up all the widths.
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livium	RE: Is There A Function For Calculating The Dimension (not Length) Of A St 2 Jul, 2009 - 10:22 AM Post #4
D.I.C Regular Joined: 21 Dec, 2008 Posts: 294 My Contributions	Thanks. I will use a monospace then. QUOTE(MageUK @ 2 Jul, 2009 - 10:18 AM) If you use CSS pt (points) instead of px (pixels) for positioning, it's supposed to make it easier to work with situations like this. I don't really believe it, but hey. You could also make your own function, store widths of characters in an array, loop through the string, and add up all the widths. thanks, but that's to hard to do. I'll try using monospace.
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CTphpnwb	RE: Is There A Function For Calculating The Dimension (not Length) Of A St 2 Jul, 2009 - 10:28 AM Post #5
D.I.C Lover Joined: 8 Aug, 2008 Posts: 2,065 Thanked: 151 times Dream Kudos: 100 Expert In: PHP My Contributions	What's wrong with using text-align? http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/text/text-align.html
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