如果有人在这里寻找一种测量字符串宽度的方法，以及一种知道适合特定宽度的最大字体大小的方法，这里有一个基于@Domi的解决方案的函数，使用二进制搜索:

/**
 * Find the largest font size (in pixels) that allows the string to fit in the given width.
 * 
 * @param {String} text - The text to be rendered.
 * @param {String} font - The css font descriptor that text is to be rendered with (e.g. "bold ?px verdana") -- note the use of ? in place of the font size.
 * @param {Number} width - The width in pixels the string must fit in
 * @param {Number} minFontPx - The smallest acceptable font size in pixels
 * @param {Number} maxFontPx - The largest acceptable font size in pixels
 **/
function GetTextSizeForWidth(text, font, width, minFontPx, maxFontPx) {
  for (;;) {
    var s = font.replace("?", maxFontPx);
    var w = GetTextWidth(text, s);
    if (w <= width) {
      return maxFontPx;
    }

    var g = (minFontPx + maxFontPx) / 2;

    if (Math.round(g) == Math.round(minFontPx) || Math.round(g) == Math.round(maxFontPx)) {
      return g;
    }

    s = font.replace("?", g);
    w = GetTextWidth(text, s);
    if (w >= width) {
      maxFontPx = g;
    } else {
      minFontPx = g;
    }
  }
}

文本的宽度和高度可以通过clientWidth和clienttheight获得

var element = document.getElementById ("mytext");

var width = element.clientWidth;
var height = element.clientHeight;

确保style position属性被设置为absolute

element.style.position = "absolute";

不需要在div中，可以在p或span中

这对我很有用……

// Handy JavaScript to measure the size taken to render the supplied text;
// you can supply additional style information too if you have it.

function measureText(pText, pFontSize, pStyle) {
    var lDiv = document.createElement('div');

    document.body.appendChild(lDiv);

    if (pStyle != null) {
        lDiv.style = pStyle;
    }
    lDiv.style.fontSize = "" + pFontSize + "px";
    lDiv.style.position = "absolute";
    lDiv.style.left = -1000;
    lDiv.style.top = -1000;

    lDiv.textContent = pText;

    var lResult = {
        width: lDiv.clientWidth,
        height: lDiv.clientHeight
    };

    document.body.removeChild(lDiv);
    lDiv = null;

    return lResult;
}

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);

我喜欢你的“唯一的想法”只是做一个静态字符宽度地图!它实际上很适合我的目的。有时，出于性能原因，或者因为不容易访问DOM，您可能只想要一个快速的、独立的、校准为单一字体的计算器。这是一个用Helvetica字体校准的;传递一个字符串和字体大小:

const widths = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.2796875,0.2765625,0.3546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.8890625,0.665625,0.190625,0.3328125,0.3328125,0.3890625,0.5828125,0.2765625,0.3328125,0.2765625,0.3015625,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.2765625,0.2765625,0.584375,0.5828125,0.584375,0.5546875,1.0140625,0.665625,0.665625,0.721875,0.721875,0.665625,0.609375,0.7765625,0.721875,0.2765625,0.5,0.665625,0.5546875,0.8328125,0.721875,0.7765625,0.665625,0.7765625,0.721875,0.665625,0.609375,0.721875,0.665625,0.94375,0.665625,0.665625,0.609375,0.2765625,0.3546875,0.2765625,0.4765625,0.5546875,0.3328125,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.2765625,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.221875,0.240625,0.5,0.221875,0.8328125,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.3328125,0.5,0.2765625,0.5546875,0.5,0.721875,0.5,0.5,0.5,0.3546875,0.259375,0.353125,0.5890625]
const avg = 0.5279276315789471

function measureText(str, fontSize) {
  return Array.from(str).reduce(
    (acc, cur) => acc + (widths[cur.charCodeAt(0)] ?? avg), 0
  ) * fontSize
}

这个巨大的丑陋数组是由字符代码索引的ASCII字符宽度。所以这只支持ASCII(否则它假设平均字符宽度)。幸运的是，宽度基本上是随字体大小线性缩放的，所以它在任何字体大小下都能很好地工作。它明显缺乏对字距或结扎之类的意识。

为了“校准”，我只是在svg上渲染了charCode 126(强大的波浪号)的每个字符，并获得了边界框并将其保存到这个数组中;这里有更多的代码、解释和演示。

在HTML 5中，你可以只使用Canvas。measureText方法(此处进一步解释)。

试试这把小提琴:

/**
  * Uses canvas.measureText to compute and return the width of the given text of given font in pixels.
  * 
  * @param {String} text The text to be rendered.
  * @param {String} font The css font descriptor that text is to be rendered with (e.g. "bold 14px verdana").
  * 
  * @see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/118241/calculate-text-width-with-javascript/21015393#21015393
  */
function getTextWidth(text, font) {
  // re-use canvas object for better performance
  const canvas = getTextWidth.canvas || (getTextWidth.canvas = document.createElement("canvas"));
  const context = canvas.getContext("2d");
  context.font = font;
  const metrics = context.measureText(text);
  return metrics.width;
}

function getCssStyle(element, prop) {
    return window.getComputedStyle(element, null).getPropertyValue(prop);
}

function getCanvasFont(el = document.body) {
  const fontWeight = getCssStyle(el, 'font-weight') || 'normal';
  const fontSize = getCssStyle(el, 'font-size') || '16px';
  const fontFamily = getCssStyle(el, 'font-family') || 'Times New Roman';
  
  return `${fontWeight} ${fontSize} ${fontFamily}`;
}

console.log(getTextWidth("hello there!", "bold 12pt arial"));  // close to 86

如果你想使用特定元素myl的字体大小，你可以使用getCanvasFont实用函数:

const fontSize = getTextWidth(text, getCanvasFont(myEl));
// do something with fontSize here...

解释:getCanvasFontSize函数接受某些元素的字体(默认为正文)，并将其转换为与上下文兼容的格式。字体属性。当然，任何元素在使用之前都必须首先添加到DOM中，否则会给您虚假的值。

更多的笔记

这种方法有几个优点，包括:

比其他(基于DOM的)方法更简洁和更安全，因为它不改变全局状态，比如DOM。 进一步的定制可以通过修改更多的画布文本属性，如textAlign和textBaseline。

注意:当你在DOM中添加文本时，记住还要考虑到填充、边距和边框。

注2:在某些浏览器上，该方法产生亚像素精度(结果是浮点数)，在其他浏览器上则不是(结果只是一个int)。你可能想运行数学。floor(或Math.ceil)，以避免不一致。由于基于dom的方法从来没有亚像素精度，因此该方法比这里的其他方法具有更高的精度。

根据这个jsperf(感谢评论中的贡献者)，如果将缓存添加到基于dom的方法中，并且您没有使用Firefox，那么Canvas方法和基于dom的方法几乎一样快。在Firefox中，由于某种原因，这种Canvas方法要比基于dom的方法快得多(截至2014年9月)。

性能

本文将此Canvas方法与Bob Monteverde基于dom的方法的变体进行了比较，因此您可以分析和比较结果的准确性。