[OpenLayers-Users] Retrieving label width

[Nuno Magalhães]

Hi Slawomir,
I'm using something similar to measureText function but the result width is
always shorter than the label.


Slawomir Messner wrote
> In my opinion, it is the easiest way to do it with a hidden div. It 
> works fine for us and one more div on a website is not that overhead or 
> memory problem if you're aware of not creating divs without destroy it 
> again.
> The textMetrics function is nice if you use jQuery:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118241/calculate-text-width-with-javascript
> 
> Am 03.12.2012 03:11, schrieb OpenGSC:
>> I think you cann't  do it by OL.because the label width determind by your
>> string length.
>> but you can do it by yourself,the relationship about pixels and
>> resolution
>> or scale you ought to konw !
>> how to calculate is very easy!
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