Calculating vertical height of a SVG text

Question

I have an array of strings. Say,

[\'Jan 11\',\'Feb 11\']

And i am creating a vertical text with these string like so

Answer 1

You can use getBBox method to calculate dimensions of the SVG nodes.

var textNode = document.getElementsByTagName('text'),
    bbox = textNode.getBBox();

//bbox now have x, y, width and height properties