这是我随手拼凑的一个例子。看来我们都达成共识了。

String.prototype.width = function(font) {
  var f = font || '12px arial',
      o = $('<div></div>')
            .text(this)
            .css({'position': 'absolute', 'float': 'left', 'white-space': 'nowrap', 'visibility': 'hidden', 'font': f})
            .appendTo($('body')),
      w = o.width();

  o.remove();

  return w;
}

使用它很简单:"a string".width()

**增加了空格:nowrap，因此宽度大于窗口宽度的字符串可以被计算。

var textWidth = (function (el) {
    el.style.position = 'absolute';
    el.style.top = '-1000px';
    document.body.appendChild(el);

    return function (text) {
        el.innerHTML = text;
        return el.clientWidth;
    };
})(document.createElement('div'));

没有jQuery:

String.prototype.width = function (fontSize) {
    var el,
        f = fontSize + " px arial" || '12px arial';
    el = document.createElement('div');
    el.style.position = 'absolute';
    el.style.float = "left";
    el.style.whiteSpace = 'nowrap';
    el.style.visibility = 'hidden';
    el.style.font = f;
    el.innerHTML = this;
    el = document.body.appendChild(el);
    w = el.offsetWidth;
    el.parentNode.removeChild(el);
    return w;
}

// Usage
"MyString".width(12);

你也可以使用createRange，这比文本克隆技术更准确:

function getNodeTextWidth(nodeWithText) {
    var textNode = $(nodeWithText).contents().filter(function () {
        return this.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE;
    })[0];
    var range = document.createRange();
    range.selectNode(textNode);
    return range.getBoundingClientRect().width;
}

我喜欢你的“唯一的想法”只是做一个静态字符宽度地图!它实际上很适合我的目的。有时，出于性能原因，或者因为不容易访问DOM，您可能只想要一个快速的、独立的、校准为单一字体的计算器。这是一个用Helvetica字体校准的;传递一个字符串和字体大小:

const widths = [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.2796875,0.2765625,0.3546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.8890625,0.665625,0.190625,0.3328125,0.3328125,0.3890625,0.5828125,0.2765625,0.3328125,0.2765625,0.3015625,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.2765625,0.2765625,0.584375,0.5828125,0.584375,0.5546875,1.0140625,0.665625,0.665625,0.721875,0.721875,0.665625,0.609375,0.7765625,0.721875,0.2765625,0.5,0.665625,0.5546875,0.8328125,0.721875,0.7765625,0.665625,0.7765625,0.721875,0.665625,0.609375,0.721875,0.665625,0.94375,0.665625,0.665625,0.609375,0.2765625,0.3546875,0.2765625,0.4765625,0.5546875,0.3328125,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.2765625,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.221875,0.240625,0.5,0.221875,0.8328125,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.5546875,0.3328125,0.5,0.2765625,0.5546875,0.5,0.721875,0.5,0.5,0.5,0.3546875,0.259375,0.353125,0.5890625]
const avg = 0.5279276315789471

function measureText(str, fontSize) {
  return Array.from(str).reduce(
    (acc, cur) => acc + (widths[cur.charCodeAt(0)] ?? avg), 0
  ) * fontSize
}

这个巨大的丑陋数组是由字符代码索引的ASCII字符宽度。所以这只支持ASCII(否则它假设平均字符宽度)。幸运的是，宽度基本上是随字体大小线性缩放的，所以它在任何字体大小下都能很好地工作。它明显缺乏对字距或结扎之类的意识。

为了“校准”，我只是在svg上渲染了charCode 126(强大的波浪号)的每个字符，并获得了边界框并将其保存到这个数组中;这里有更多的代码、解释和演示。

我为此写了一个小工具。也许对某些人有用。它不需要jQuery也能工作。

https://github.com/schickling/calculate-size

用法:

var size = calculateSize("Hello world!", {
   font: 'Arial',
   fontSize: '12px'
});

console.log(size.width); // 65
console.log(size.height); // 14

小提琴:http://jsfiddle.net/PEvL8/