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At work, I've been building a way to generate "placeholder" images using a fragment of the DOM (Document Object Model). And, up until now, I've been using the
Run this demo in my JavaScript Demos project on GitHub. View this code in my JavaScript Demos project on GitHub.
A I actually looked at the If I have a text-node in the DOM, and I create a Consider a Extending this, if we incrementally expand the contents of a This is definitely brute force and is probably going to be slow on very large chunks of text. But, for a single paragraph on a desktop computer, this brute force approach feels instantaneous. Let's see this in action. In the following demo, I have a text node with some static text in it. When you click the button, I examine the text node and brute force extract the rendered lines of text and log them to the console. The method of not here is called
As you can see, we're looping over the characters in our text-node, adding each one the
At the end of the brute-forcing, we have a two-dimensional array of characters in which the first dimension is this As you can see, we took a text-node from the DOM, which has no inherent line-breaks or text-wrapping, and used the This works on my Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari (though, I had to normalize the white-space in the text-content in order for Safari to work consistently with the modern
browsers). And, of course, this is for a text node only. Meaning, this approach wasn't designed to work with an Once I have this production, I'd like to follow-up with a more in-depth example of how I'm generating the placeholder images using the Want to use code from this post? Check out the license. Does \n work in JavaScript?As you probably all know, \n doesn't work and I have to use <br> instead. How do I enable line breaks?To add spacing between lines or paragraphs of text in a cell, use a keyboard shortcut to add a new line. Click the location where you want to break the line. Press ALT+ENTER to insert the line break. How do you add a br tag to a string?result = string1 + " - " + string2 + " <br /> " + string3; (But that attempt just displays the tag).. This isn't the same if string1 , etc. contain HTML tags. ... . <br /> can't be used in the string. You have to use \n or something else. ... . @Sandokan did you test that?. Which tag is used for break line in JavaScript?<br>: The Line Break element. The <br> HTML element produces a line break in text (carriage-return). |