Re: [Rails] Working out size of strings made of varable width fonts.

Ruby on Rails Saturday, September 23, 2017

> On Sep 23, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Ben Edwards <login@funkytwig.com> wrote:
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> I want to use this to put truncate stuff and put ... If a text string in too long.

There is a CSS property for overflow, which will take the letterforms and specific characters into account. See more here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/overflow

Walter

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