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Say I have:
<div>Some variable amount of text.</div>
How can I get the width (in pixels) of the text in the div?
Keep in mind that the amount of text will vary unpredictably from div to div.
Thanks!
Sounds like you want the width of the contents, not of the div itself as others have provided. I think that you will need to wrap your contents in a span so that you can then measure the width of the span. The div will always be as wide as possible. You need something that collapses to the size of the content that you can measure instead.