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

after chasing a ghost for two days, trying to figure out why the width of a text was incorrect, i realized it was because of white spaces in the text string that would stop the width calculation.

so, another tip is to check if the whitespaces are causing problems. use

non-breaking space and see if that fixes it up.

the other functions people suggested work well too, but it was the whitespaces causing trouble.