Font size auto adjust to fit

Question

I\'m trying to do what the title says. I\'ve seen that font-size can be a percentage. So my guess was that font-size: 100%; would do it, but no.

Answer 1

Can't be done with CSS.

100% is in relation to the computed font-size of the parent element.

reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html#font-size-props

For a jQuery solution look at Auto-size dynamic text to fill fixed size container