jQWidgets jqxDraw measureText() Method

Last Updated : 29 Jan, 2022

jQWidgets is a JavaScript framework for making web-based applications for PC and mobile devices. It is a very powerful, optimized, platform-independent, and widely supported framework. The jqxDraw is a small jQuery-based plugin that is used to draw shapes and texts using VML, SVG and HTML5

The measureText() method is used for estimating the size of a specified text element for the specified jqxDraw widget.

Syntax:

var textSize = renderer.measureText(Text, Angle, Attributes);

Parameters: This method accepts three parameters that are illustrated below:

Text: This is the specified text whose size is going to be estimated.
Angle: This is the specified angle for the text.
Attributes: This is the optional parameter attribute for the text.

Return values: This method returns the size of the specified text element.

Linked Files: Download jQWidgets from the given link. In the HTML file, locate the script files in the downloaded folder.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css” type=”text/css” />
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”scripts/jquery.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxcore.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqxdraw.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”jqwidgets/jqx-all.js”></script>

Example: The below example illustrates the jQWidgets jqxDraw measureText() Method.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <link rel="stylesheet" 
          href="jqwidgets/styles/jqx.base.css" t 
          ype="text/css" /> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="scripts/jquery-1.11.1.min.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxcore.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="jqwidgets/jqxdraw.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script type="text/javascript"
            src="jqwidgets/jqx-all.js"> 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <center> 
        <h1 style="color:green;"> 
            GeeksforGeeks 
        </h1> 
        <h3>jQWidgets jqxDraw measureText() Method</h3> 
        <div id="jqx_Draw" 
             style="height:200px; width:280px;"> 
        </div> 
        <input type="button" 
               id="Button_for_measureText" 
               style="padding:5px 15px; margin-top:40px;"
            value="Get the size of the GeeksforGeeks text"> 
        <div id="log"></div> 
        <script type="text/javascript"> 
            $(document).ready(function () { 
                $('#jqx_Draw').jqxDraw({ 
                    renderEngine: 'HTML5' 
                }); 
                var Instance = $('#jqx_Draw').jqxDraw('getInstance'); 
                var Size = Instance.measureText('GeeksforGeeks', 30); 
                Instance.refresh(); 
                $("#Button_for_measureText").click(function () { 
                    $("#log").html(JSON.stringify(Size)); 
                }); 
            }); 
        </script> 
    </center> 
</body> 
  
</html>