--- title: Count the number of lines inside a text | daily.dev description: Learn how to count the number of lines in a text by adjusting the code used to get the width and height of any element using CSS. The demo adjusts the number... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/count-the-number-of-lines-inside-a-text-yd6bhtp2j twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Count the number of lines inside a text | daily.dev og:description: Learn how to count the number of lines in a text by adjusting the code used to get the width and height of any element using CSS. 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Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@yaireo** · 0 upvotes > I've made a CodePen some years ago which shows how to do that with javascript ofc... > > https://codepen.io/vsync/pen/BawdgEd --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/count-the-number-of-lines-inside-a-text-yd6bhtp2j) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Count the number of lines inside a text","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/count-the-number-of-lines-inside-a-text-yd6bhtp2j","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/count-the-number-of-lines-inside-a-text-yd6bhtp2j"},"datePublished":"2024-07-29T11:15:01.312Z","dateModified":"2024-08-23T16:20:31.698Z","description":"Learn how to count the number of lines in a text by adjusting the code used to get the width and height of any element using CSS. 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