<function name="GetTextSize" parent="surface" type="libraryfunc"> <description>Returns the width and height (in pixels) of the given text, but only if the font has been set with <page>surface.SetFont</page>.</description>⤶ <description>Returns the width and height (in pixels) of the given text with the font that has been set with <page>surface.SetFont</page>.⤶ ⤶ <validate>⤶ Does not take into account new lines, the returned height is for the entire font (as specified by the font), not maximum of individual characters.</validate></description>⤶ <realm>Client and Menu</realm> <args> <arg name="text" type="string">The string to check the size of.</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="number">Width of the provided text.</ret> <ret name="" type="number">Height of the provided text.</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Prints out the size of `Hello World` in the Trebuchet24 font.</description> <code> surface.SetFont( "Trebuchet24" ) local text = "Hello World" local width, height = surface.GetTextSize( text ) print("Text width: " .. width .. ", text height: " .. height) </code> <output> ``` Text width: 100, text height: 24 ``` </output> </example> <example> <description>Get text height very quickly. No tables or spare variables used.</description> <code> surface.SetFont( "Trebuchet24" ) local text = "Hello World" local height = select( 2, surface.GetTextSize( text ) ) print( height ) </code> <output> ``` 24 ``` </output> </example>