How to Calculate Text Width with JavaScript?

John Au-Yeung
JavaScript in Plain English
2 min readSep 19, 2021

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Sometimes, we’ve to calculate the width of text content in our JavaScript code.

In this article, we’ll look at how to calculate text content width in our JavaScript code.

clientHeight and clientWidth

The clientHeight and clientWidth properties of an HTML element object lets us get the height and width of the element.

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