JS (or JQuery): Find the point where a line wraps

[FLEB]

Is there a built-in function or a simplified method to tell where a given line of text wraps/will wrap in a given container (the container is fixed-width)? I want to chop off and add an ellipsis to some text at the point where it exceeds one line.

My best idea so far is to just create a dummy container with the same specs, off-screen or invisible, and feed words into it one-by-one, then return where the container changes height. This just seems like the "brute force" long way around the problem, but I don't know if there's a better way.

[rnd me]

that's the trick i use, and it works.

there really is no other good way since firefox 3 zooms everything, making
calculations next to impossible.

i would write it into a reusable function that you can pass text and a style attrib to, and get back the width.

makes a nice addition to your script library.

[FLEB]

Excellent. Thanks.

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