Calculate width of letter

[thechasboi]

Is there a way to calculate the width of a letter based upon the font,size, bold and other properties???

Thanks for the answer

[felgall]

Possibly by puting it inside a span and testing the size of the span.

Of course you also need to allow for when the letter doesn't have a font or size such as when it has a voice and pitch instead. You also can't rely on what you put in your stylesheet since your visitors can easily change it to suit themselves.

[thechasboi]

felgall

Thanks for the reply. I was actually wondering if there was a way to do it on the fly. If some one at some time did some sort of averaging of letter widths. I do at this point calculate the height of the lement based upon the font size but the width is eluding me.

[konithomimo]

Is there a way to calculate the width of a letter based upon the font,size, bold and other properties???

Thanks for the answer

It would vary by font-style, so doing it without using a span as Felgall suggested would be almost impossible.

[thechasboi]

konithomimo

Inserting text or letters into a span is not a bad idea but it is extrememly time consuming. I was hoping there was a different way of achieving this goal. Thanks for the answer