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+1  Q: 

How wide is a text area column?

If I specify a text area on a web page X columns wide and I have a variable-width font, how wide is the text area? What is a column unit?

Is it the width of the widest character? The mean width? Average?

Or perhaps some width unit regardless of the font given?

+5  A: 

It's the average character width of the specified font.

Chris Pebble  2009-03-13 14:58:57

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