autosize a label

[Guest]

i need to autosize a label to grow with the size of the text that from a
database
how do i do this?
i have tried to uses MeasureString but i don't have the right parameters
namely the font parameters. asp uses fontinfo class and Measurestring dose
not take that input.

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

The label doesn't need to be sized at all. Keep in mind though, the label
will only fill whatever container it's in. If the label control is in a
table cell that is only 100 pixels wide, it will wrap within that table cell
because it's container is restricting it. Make sure you don't put height and
width values on it and you should be fine as far as the label itself goes.
You just have to be very careful about what it is going into.

 

[bruce barker]

as the server may not have the same font or font sizes as the browser,
you can not do this server side. you can only do it client side, but
there is no string measure, you can only check actual rendered size.

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

 

[Guest]

thanks
i have the labels in a table, so how to i expand the table cell then?