jQuery TextFill

This jQuery plugin resizes text to make it fit into a container. The font size gets as big as possible.

• Homepage.
• Simple example.
• Unit tests (assure plugin correctness).

Usage

• Remember to include jQuery and jQuery TextFill:

<script src="jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.textfill.min.js"></script>

• Select which element you'll use. Make sure to:
  • Specify the parent's width and height
  • Put the text inside of a <span/> child by default (see Options to change this)

<div id='my-element' style='width:100px;height:50px;'>
  <span>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog</span>
</div>

• Initialize jQuery TextFill

$('#my-element').textfill({
    ...options...
});

Options

Remember, container means the parent element, while child is the element that will resize. On the example above, the parent was the div and the child was the span.

Name	Description	Default Value
minFontPixels	Minimal font size (in pixels). The text will shrink up to this value.	4
maxFontPixels	Maximum font size (in pixels). The text will stretch up to this value.. If it's a negative value (size <= 0), the text will stretch to as big as the container can accommodate.	40
innerTag	The child element tag to resize. We select it by using $(innerTag + ':visible:first', container)	span
widthOnly	Will only resize to the width restraint. The font might become tiny under small containers.	false
explicitWidth	Explicit width to resize. Defaults to the container's width.	null
explicitHeight	Explicit height to resize. Defaults to the container's height.	null
changeLineHeight	Also change the line-height of the parent container. This might be useful when shrinking to a small container.	false
allowOverflow	Allows text to overflow when minFontPixels is reached. Won't fail resizing, but instead will overflow container.	false
debug	Output debugging messages to console.	false

For example,

<script>
$(function() {
    $('#my-element').textfill({
        maxFontPixels: 36
    });
});
</script>

Callbacks

Name	Called when...	Default Value
success	Called when a resizing is successful	null
fail	Called when a resizing is failed	null
complete	Called when all elements are done	null

For example,

<script>
$(function() {
    $('#my-element').textfill({
        success: function() {
		    console.log("yay!")
		},
		fail: function() {
		    alert("boo hoo!")
		}
    });
});
</script>

Contributing

You are very welcome to contribute! A good number of people did, so feel free to help no matter how small the changes might be.

Just make sure to read the file CONTRIBUTING.md first. There we make a quick take on how you could help us.

Also, there we lay down our rules for reporting issues and making pull requests. Gotcha! Now you can't say we didn't tell you about it!

If you found something critical or just want to make a suggestion open an issue and start typing right away.

Credits

This jQuery plugin was created by Russ Painter around May 2009, beginning with a StackOverflow question.

In very early 2012, Yu-Jie Lin helped to move the project to GitHub with version 0.1 and obtained the clearly stated open source licensing from Russ.

Around July 2014 Alexandre Dantas was made a contributor.

License

jquery-textfill is licensed under the MIT License. See file COPYING.md to see what you can and cannot do with the source.