- Qt 5.5
- Qt Quick
- QML Types
- TextMetrics QML Type
- Qt 5.5.1 Reference Documentation

# TextMetrics QML Type

Provides metrics for a given font and text More...

Import Statement: | import QtQuick 2.5
Since: | Qt 5.4

- List of all members, including inherited members

## Properties

- advanceWidth : real
- boundingRect : rect
- elide : enumeration
- elideWidth : real
- font : font
- height : real
- text : string
- tightBoundingRect : rect
- width : real

## Detailed Description

TextMetrics calculates various properties of a given string of text for a particular font.

It provides a declarative API for the functions in QFontMetricsF which take arguments.

    TextMetrics {
        id: textMetrics
        font.family: "Arial"
        elide: Text.ElideMiddle
        elideWidth: 100
        text: "Hello World"
    }

    MyItem {
        text: textMetrics.elidedText
    }

See also QFontMetricsF and FontMetrics.

## Property Documentation

advanceWidth : real

This property holds the advance in pixels of the characters in text. This is the distance from the position of the string to where the next string should be drawn.

See also QFontMetricsF::width().

boundingRect : rect

This property holds the bounding rectangle of the characters in the string specified by text.

See also QFontMetricsF::boundingRect() and tightBoundingRect.

elide : enumeration

This property holds the elide mode of the text. This determines the position in which the string is elided. The possible values are:

- `Qt::ElideNone` - No eliding; this is the default value.
- `Qt::ElideLeft` - For example: "...World"
- `Qt::ElideMiddle` - For example: "He...ld"
- `Qt::ElideRight` - For example: "Hello..."

See also elideWidth and QFontMetrics::elidedText.

elideWidth : real

This property holds the largest width the text can have (in pixels) before eliding will occur.

See also elide and QFontMetrics::elidedText.

font : font

This property holds the font used for the metrics calculations.

height : real

This property holds the height of the bounding rectangle of the characters in the string specified by text. It is equivalent to:

    textMetrics.boundingRect.height

See also boundingRect.

text : string

This property holds the text used for the metrics calculations.

tightBoundingRect : rect

This property holds a tight bounding rectangle around the characters in the string specified by text.

See also QFontMetricsF::tightBoundingRect() and boundingRect.

width : real

This property holds the width of the bounding rectangle of the characters in the string specified by text. It is equivalent to:

    textMetrics.boundingRect.width

See also boundingRect.