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<DIV><SPAN class=010101918-30012007><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080
size=2>Wouldn't the font the user has selected for his browser (if he chose to
override page - say vision problems) impact this?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT color=#000080 size=2>John Warner</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
javascript-bounces@LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-bounces@LaTech.edu] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Lee Bettridge<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:25
AM<BR><B>To:</B> [JavaScript List]<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Javascript] is their a
javascript function,or DOM property to find the char limit of a table cell or
div?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <FONT color=navy><SPAN style="COLOR: navy">I
need to manually scroll a large body of text in a table cell or div tag and
was wondering if their is a way to find out how many characters will fit into
an area of a given size ?</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Normally in a browser
environment any overflow would automatically be handled by scroll bars (unless
scroll bars are explicitly turned off), but I am working in a TV browser and
remote control environment and cannot use scroll bars.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Lee.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>