How do I get text width in pixels, using JavaScript or jQuery? [duplicate]

Question

I want to get textarea text width. How do I get text width in pixels?

I do not want the text length.

Answer 1

Simply wrap the text in a (invisible) span and use jQuerys .width() to get the width.

Note that you should not, like others said, use a div as it's a block-element - and depending on where/how you insert that, a block-element may auto-expand to the full available width and give bad results.