ApplyLineBreaks-Measure Lines

by greatCar

HTML

<div>
    <textarea cols="20" rows="5" id="myTextarea" ></textarea>
</div>
<div id="pnlPreview"></div>
<div>
    <button type="button" onclick="ApplyLineBreaks('myTextarea');">Apply Line Breaks</button>
</div>

CSS

textarea {  }

JavaScript

function ApplyLineBreaks(strTextAreaId) {
//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4719777/finding-line-breaks-in-textarea-that-is-word-wrapping-arabic-text
    var oTextarea = document.getElementById(strTextAreaId);
    if (oTextarea.wrap) {
        oTextarea.setAttribute("wrap", "off");
    }
    else {
        oTextarea.setAttribute("wrap", "off");
        var newArea = oTextarea.cloneNode(true);
        newArea.value = oTextarea.value;
        oTextarea.parentNode.replaceChild(newArea, oTextarea);
        oTextarea = newArea;
    }

    var strRawValue = oTextarea.value;
    oTextarea.value = "";
    var nEmptyWidth = oTextarea.scrollWidth;
    var nLastWrappingIndex = -1;

    function testBreak(strTest) {
        oTextarea.value = strTest;
        return oTextarea.scrollWidth > nEmptyWidth;
    }
    function findNextBreakLength(strSource, nLeft, nRight) {
        var nCurrent;
        if(typeof(nLeft) == 'undefined') {
            nLeft = 0;
            nRight = -1;
            nCurrent = 64;
        }
        else {
            if (nRight == -1)
                nCurrent = nLeft * 2;
            else if (nRight - nLeft <= 1)
                return Math.max(2, nRight);
            else
                nCurrent = nLeft + (nRight - nLeft) / 2;
        }
        var strTest = strSource.substr(0, nCurrent);
        var bLonger = testBreak(strTest);
        if(bLonger)
            nRight = nCurrent;
        else
        {
            if(nCurrent >= strSource.length)
                return null;
            nLeft = nCurrent;
        }
        return findNextBreakLength(strSource, nLeft, nRight);
    }

    var i = 0, j;
    var strNewValue = "";
    while (i < strRawValue.length) {
        var breakOffset = findNextBreakLength(strRawValue.substr(i));
        if (breakOffset === null) {
            strNewValue += strRawValue.substr(i);
            break;
        }
        nLastWrappingIndex = -1;
        var nLineLength = breakOffset - 1;
        for (j = nLineLength...