On Tuesday 30 April 2002 00:17, District Webmaster wrote:
> In html/css you can set a font size in pixels -- in my experience this
> means a letter takes the same number of pixels, regardless of
> resolution.
That may (or may not) be true, but that's referring to the height of the font.
> With php, can I use string length and font pixel size to
> determine the length of a given string on a screen? Does anyone know an
> algorithm for this that works for any/every font?
Here I would assume you're referring to the width of the text. Thus what you
want to do is not possible.
You can use a fixed-width font and hope for the best.
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