没有jQuery:

String.prototype.width = function (fontSize) {
    var el,
        f = fontSize + " px arial" || '12px arial';
    el = document.createElement('div');
    el.style.position = 'absolute';
    el.style.float = "left";
    el.style.whiteSpace = 'nowrap';
    el.style.visibility = 'hidden';
    el.style.font = f;
    el.innerHTML = this;
    el = document.body.appendChild(el);
    w = el.offsetWidth;
    el.parentNode.removeChild(el);
    return w;
}

// Usage
"MyString".width(12);

更好的方法是在显示元素之前检测文本是否合适。你可以使用这个函数它不需要元素在屏幕上。

function textWidth(text, fontProp) {
    var tag = document.createElement("div");
    tag.style.position = "absolute";
    tag.style.left = "-999em";
    tag.style.whiteSpace = "nowrap";
    tag.style.font = fontProp;
    tag.innerHTML = text;

    document.body.appendChild(tag);

    var result = tag.clientWidth;

    document.body.removeChild(tag);

    return result;
}

用法:

if ( textWidth("Text", "bold 13px Verdana") > elementWidth) {
    ...
}

var textWidth = (function (el) {
    el.style.position = 'absolute';
    el.style.top = '-1000px';
    document.body.appendChild(el);

    return function (text) {
        el.innerHTML = text;
        return el.clientWidth;
    };
})(document.createElement('div'));

我为此写了一个小工具。也许对某些人有用。它不需要jQuery也能工作。

https://github.com/schickling/calculate-size

用法:

var size = calculateSize("Hello world!", {
   font: 'Arial',
   fontSize: '12px'
});

console.log(size.width); // 65
console.log(size.height); // 14

小提琴:http://jsfiddle.net/PEvL8/

我猜这和Depak的条目很相似，但这是基于Louis Lazaris在impressiveweb页面上发表的一篇文章

(function($){

        $.fn.autofit = function() {             

            var hiddenDiv = $(document.createElement('div')),
            content = null;

            hiddenDiv.css('display','none');

            $('body').append(hiddenDiv);

            $(this).bind('fit keyup keydown blur update focus',function () {
                content = $(this).val();

                content = content.replace(/\n/g, '<br>');
                hiddenDiv.html(content);

                $(this).css('width', hiddenDiv.width());

            });

            return this;

        };
    })(jQuery);

fit事件用于在函数关联到控件之后立即执行函数调用。

例如:$(“输入”).autofit () .trigger(“适合”);

下面的代码片段，“计算”span标签的宽度，如果它太长，就添加“…”，并减少文本长度，直到它适合它的父标签(或者直到它尝试了超过1000次)

CSS

div.places {
  width : 100px;
}
div.places span {
  white-space:nowrap;
  overflow:hidden;
}

HTML

<div class="places">
  <span>This is my house</span>
</div>
<div class="places">
  <span>And my house are your house</span>
</div>
<div class="places">
  <span>This placename is most certainly too wide to fit</span>
</div>

JavaScript(使用jQuery)

// loops elements classed "places" and checks if their child "span" is too long to fit
$(".places").each(function (index, item) {
    var obj = $(item).find("span");
    if (obj.length) {
        var placename = $(obj).text();
        if ($(obj).width() > $(item).width() && placename.trim().length > 0) {
            var limit = 0;
            do {
                limit++;
                                    placename = placename.substring(0, placename.length - 1);
                                    $(obj).text(placename + "...");
            } while ($(obj).width() > $(item).width() && limit < 1000)
        }
    }
});