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Re: Q: Retrieve length (in pixels) of rendered string??

From: "Jerry D. Turner" <f-off@--------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 12/10/2005 10:25:00 AM

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@n...> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 09:34:56 +0800, "Jerry D. Turner"
> <f-off@s...> wrote:
>
>>Is there a way in msxsl to retrieve the length, in pixels, of a string?
>>Say, for example, the text of a marquee object?  I'd like to find out out
>>long a string is in pixels.
>>
>>Is this possible?
>
> No, it isn't. XSLT is entirely independent of any resultant display of
> output, you'd need to look at CSS and Javascript for that.
>
> Cheers - Neil

Ah, ok.  I gotcha, Neil. This stuff is starting to sink in (old dog and new 
tricks and all that.)

Well, in JS, is there something that will determine the rendered length of a 
string?  Although, I guess that's a bit off-topic for this forum, eh?

Later...

Jerry

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