I need to display user entered text into a fixed size div. What i want is for the font size to be automatically adjusted so that the text fills the box as much as possible.
So - If the div is 400px x 300px. If someone enters ABC then it's really big font. If they enter a paragraph, then it would be a tiny font.
I'd probably want to start with a maximum font size - maybe 32px, and while the text is too big to fit the container, shrink the font size until it fits.
This probably isn't very elegant, but maybe we can refine it together:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#dynamicDiv
{
background: #CCCCCC;
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
font-size: 64px;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function shrink()
{
var textSpan = document.getElementById("dynamicSpan");
var textDiv = document.getElementById("dynamicDiv");
textSpan.style.fontSize = 64;
while(textSpan.offsetHeight > textDiv.offsetHeight)
{
textSpan.style.fontSize = parseInt(textSpan.style.fontSize) - 1;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="shrink()">
<div id="dynamicDiv"><span id="dynamicSpan">DYNAMIC FONT</span></div>
</body>
</html>
Thanks Attack. I wanted to use jQuery. You pointed me in the right direction, and this is what I ended up with:
;(function($) {
$.fn.textfill = function(options) {
var fontSize = options.maxFontPixels;
var ourText = $('span:visible:first', this);
var maxHeight = $(this).height();
var maxWidth = $(this).width();
var textHeight;
var textWidth;
do {
ourText.css('font-size', fontSize);
textHeight = ourText.height();
textWidth = ourText.width();
fontSize = fontSize - 1;
} while (textHeight > maxHeight || textWidth > maxWidth && fontSize > 3);
return this;
}
})(jQuery);
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.jtextfill').textfill({ maxFontPixels: 36 });
});
and my html is like this
<div class='jtextfill' style='width:100px;height:50px;'>
<span>My Text Here</span>
</div>
This is my first jquery plugin, so it's probably not as good as it should be. Pointers are certainly welcome.
This is based on what GeekyMonkey posted above, with some modifications.
; (function($) {
/**
* Resize inner element to fit the outer element
* @author Some modifications by Alexander Sandstorm
* @author Code based on earlier works by Russ Painter ([email protected])
* @version 0.2
*/
$.fn.textfill = function(options) {
options = jQuery.extend({
maxFontSize: null,
minFontSize: 8,
step: 1
}, options);
return this.each(function() {
var innerElements = $(this).children(':visible'),
fontSize = options.maxFontSize || innerElements.css("font-size"), // use current font-size by default
maxHeight = $(this).height(),
maxWidth = $(this).width(),
innerHeight,
innerWidth;
do {
innerElements.css('font-size', fontSize);
// use the combined height of all children, eg. multiple <p> elements.
innerHeight = $.map(innerElements, function(e) {
return $(e).outerHeight();
}).reduce(function(p, c) {
return p + c;
}, 0);
innerWidth = innerElements.outerWidth(); // assumes that all inner elements have the same width
fontSize = fontSize - options.step;
} while ((innerHeight > maxHeight || innerWidth > maxWidth) && fontSize > options.minFontSize);
});
};
})(jQuery);