specifying the width, in pixels, of a line of text with CSS

[John Fitzgibbon]

Hi,

Is it possible to specify, in pixels, the width of a line of text? The
text is between two small images.

I wish to accurately calculate the width of the two images plus the
text.

I could set a value for the width property of the span containing the
text and set overflow to clip but this may cause me to lose some of the
text which I am hoping to avoid. I really need to be able to specify the
width of the font or the width of each letter.

The width of the images, I already know. If I could specify the width of
the font or the width of each letter I can reckon the total width.

Any ideas would be welcome.

Regards
John

John Fitzgibbon

Galway Public Library
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Ireland

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