TextWidth in ASP 1

[fischadler]

If you know the font name and font size, and you know whether the text is in bold, italics or underlined, would it be possible determine the length in pixels of a string of text? It would be very easy to calulate that if the font is mono spaced, but what about other standard fonts such as Arial?

There is a function in Visual Basic called TextWidth, that does exactly that. Is there an equivalent in ASP?

Thanks!

-Fischadler

 

[Sheco]

You could make some logic to guess but it would never be more than a guess because the web server never really knows how the browser will display something...

With Internet Explorer, for example, you can click the menu View -> TextSize -> Largest.

 

[fischadler]

OK. Thanks anyway!

-Fischadler