Calculating text width

Question

I\'m trying to calculate text width using jQuery. I\'m not sure what, but I am definitely doing something wrong.

So, here is the code:

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Answer 1

I found this solution works well and it inherits the origin font before sizing:

$.fn.textWidth = function(text){
  var org = $(this)
  var html = $('' + (text || org.html()) + '');
  if (!text) {
    html.css("font-family", org.css("font-family"));
    html.css("font-size", org.css("font-size"));
  }
  $('body').append(html);
  var width = html.width();
  html.remove();
  return width;
}