这是我随手拼凑的一个例子。看来我们都达成共识了。

String.prototype.width = function(font) {
  var f = font || '12px arial',
      o = $('<div></div>')
            .text(this)
            .css({'position': 'absolute', 'float': 'left', 'white-space': 'nowrap', 'visibility': 'hidden', 'font': f})
            .appendTo($('body')),
      w = o.width();

  o.remove();

  return w;
}

使用它很简单:"a string".width()

**增加了空格:nowrap，因此宽度大于窗口宽度的字符串可以被计算。

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)
        }
    }
});

如果你可以安装一个包，并且你想要一个更权威或更精确的答案，你可以使用opentype.js(奇怪的是没有人提到这一点):

import { load } from "opentype.js";

const getWidth = async (text = "Hello World") => {
  const font = await load("path/to/some/font");
  const { x1, x2 } = font.getPath(text, 0, 0, 12).getBoundingBox();
  return x2 - x1;
};

当然，您希望每个字体只调用load一次，因此应该根据您的情况将该行拉出到更高的范围。

下面是一个代码沙盒，将OpenType方法与Canvas和DOM方法进行比较: https://codesandbox.io/s/measure-width-of-text-in-javascript-vctst2

在我的机器上，每个100个样品，典型的结果是:

女士的OpenType: 5 女士帆布:3 女士DOM: 4

我发现的另一个软件包是:https://github.com/sffc/word-wrappr

你可以使用画布，这样你就不必处理这么多css属性:

var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.font = "20pt Arial";  // This can be set programmaticly from the element's font-style if desired
var textWidth = ctx.measureText($("#myElement").text()).width;

对于任何一个在那里使用React和/或Typescript…

试试这个Codepen!

export default function App() {
  const spanRef = useRef<HTMLSpanElement>(null);
  const [textWidth, setTextWidth] = useState(0);

  const getTextWidthInPixels = (ref: HTMLSpanElement) =>
    ref.getBoundingClientRect().width;

  useEffect(() => {
    setTextWidth(getTextWidthInPixels(spanRef.current!));
  }, [spanRef]);

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <span
        ref={spanRef}
        contentEditable
        suppressContentEditableWarning
        onInput={() => setTextWidth(getTextWidthInPixels(spanRef.current!))}
      >
        Edit Me!!!
      </span>
      {`textWidth: ${textWidth}px`}
    </div>
  );
}

将文本包装在内联定位的元素(如<span>)中是个好主意。 useRef是React访问DOM元素的方式，在我们的例子中是<span> getBoundingClientRect可以获得任何DOM元素的总宽度。 contentteditable允许用户更改元素的内容…这有点不安全(React会抛出警告!) suppresscontentteditablewarning将帮助我们防止这些警告

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。