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How determine HTML input text is too long to be displayed entirely?

How to detect if user provided text which is longer than HTML <input> is able to display entirely?

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    WOW, answer by chatgpt actually works. Core idea is to compare inputText.scrollWidth > inputText.clientWidth.

    The complete answer is below

    To detect if an HTML input text is too long to show entirely within its container, you can use JavaScript to compare the input's width to the container's width. If the input's width exceeds the container's width, it means the text is too long to be fully visible, and you can take appropriate actions to handle this situation.

    Here's a step-by-step guide on how to achieve this:

    1. Create the HTML structure:
    <div id="container">
  <input type="text" id="inputText" />
</div>
    1. Use CSS to style the container and input field. Set the container to have a fixed width, and you can add any additional styles as needed.
    #container {
  width: 300px; /* Set the width of your container */
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  padding: 10px;
}

#inputText {
  width: 100%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}
    1. Write JavaScript to detect if the input text is too long for the container. You can do this by comparing the scrollWidth property of the input element to its client width.
    <script>
  document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
    const container = document.getElementById("container");
    const inputText = document.getElementById("inputText");

    function isInputTextTooLong() {
      return inputText.scrollWidth > inputText.clientWidth;
    }

    function handleInputTextOverflow() {
      if (isInputTextTooLong()) {
        console.log("Input text is too long to show entirely.");
        // You can handle the overflow situation here (e.g., show a tooltip, truncate the text, etc.).
      } else {
        console.log("Input text fits entirely within the container.");
      }
    }

    handleInputTextOverflow();

    // Optional: You can also check for changes dynamically (e.g., user input).
    inputText.addEventListener("input", handleInputTextOverflow);
  });
</script>

    This code checks whether the input text is too long when the page loads and also listens for input events to handle dynamic changes (e.g., user input).

    By comparing the scrollWidth and clientWidth, you can determine if the text overflows its container, and you can take appropriate actions based on your requirements. For example, you might want to display a tooltip with the full text or truncate the text with ellipsis (...) to make it fit within the container.


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    You may be looking for the maxlength attribute, which can be set like this:

    <input type="text" maxlength="LENGTH HERE">

    As far as the maximum length that you are using, it depends on the size of the input element. I would recommend guessing and checking until you find a value that works best for your use case.

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    first retrieve your input by querySelector

    const sample=document.querySelector("specificInput")

    then access the text inside it by value property

    const text=sample.value;

    if you want to check width of each word use split() method to seprate your words from each other and store it in an array.

    const wordArray=text.split(" ");

    (inside split() you should use space because in that case only retrieves the words)

    but if you want the whole text, you can just skip split() section.

    then use measureText().width to check the width of the text or words(if you want to check the width of the words, because they are stored inside an array, you should iterate over array to check their widths)

    and for the end, use an if condition to check if the width of the word or text is larger than the specific area or not, if the width of the text or word was more than the width of the specific area possibly you have overflow.

    ( when I say "possibly" it is because I don’t know what you are designing for example in a simple div container if the text is larger than the container, text overflow wouldn’t happen and text eventually wraps but if the word is bigger than the container, it overflows).

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