SVG get text element width

Question

I\'m working on some ECMAScript/JavaScript for an SVG file and need to get the width and height of a text element so I can resize a re

Answer 1

var bbox = textElement.getBBox();
var width = bbox.width;
var height = bbox.height;

and then set the rect's attributes accordingly.

Link: getBBox() in the SVG v1.1 standard.