Fitty, Snugly text resizing

Scales up (or down) text so it fits perfectly to its parent container.

Ideal for flexible and responsive websites.

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Features

• No dependencies
• Easy setup
• Optimal performance by grouping DOM read and write operations
• Works with WebFonts (see example below)
• Min and max font sizes
• Support for MultiLine
• Auto update when viewport changes
• Monitors element subtree and updates accordingly

Installation

Install from npm:

npm install fitty --save

Or download dist/fitty.min.js and include the script on your page like shown below.

Usage

Run fitty like shown below and pass an element reference or a querySelector. For best performance include the script just before the closing `` element.

<div id="my-element">Hello World</div>

The following options are available to pass to the fitty method.

Default MutationObserverInit configuration:

{
  subtree: true,
  childList: true,
  characterData: true
}

You can pass custom arguments like this:

fitty('#my-element', {
    minSize: 12,
    maxSize: 300,
});

The fitty function returns a single or multiple Fitty instances depending on how it's called. If you pass a query selector it will return an array of Fitty instances, if you pass a single element reference you'll receive back a single Fitty instance.

var fitties = fitty('.fit');

// get element reference of first fitty
var myFittyElement = fitties[0].element;

// force refit
fitties[0].fit();

// force synchronous refit
fitties[0].fit({ sync: true });

// stop updating this fitty and restore to original state
fitties[0].unsubscribe();

Fitty dispatches an event named "fit" when a fitty is fitted.

The detail property of the event contains an object which exposes the font size oldValue the newValue and the scaleFactor.

myFittyElement.addEventListener('fit', function (e) {
    // log the detail property to the console
    console.log(e.detail);
});

The fitty function itself also exposes some static options and methods:

Performance

For optimal performance add a CSS selector to your stylesheet that sets the elements that will be resized to have white-space:nowrap and display:inline-block. If not, Fitty will detect this and will have to restyle the elements automatically, resulting in a slight performance penalty.

Suppose all elements that you apply fitty to are assigned the fit class name, add the following CSS selector to your stylesheet:

.fit {
    display: inline-block;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

Should you only want to do this when JavaScript is available, add the following to the `` of your web page.

And change the CSS selector to:

.js .fit {
    display: inline-block;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

Do Not Upscale Text

Fitty calculates the difference in width between the text container and its parent container. If you use CSS to set the width of the text container to be equal to the parent container it won't scale the text.

This could be achieved by forcing the text container to be a block level element with display: block !important or setting its width to 100% with width: 100%.

Custom Fonts

Fitty does not concern itself with custom fonts. But it will be important to redraw Fitty text after a custom font has loaded (as previous measurements are probably incorrect at that point).

If you need to use fitty on browsers that don't have CSS Font Loading support (Edge and Internet Explorer) you can use the fantastic FontFaceObserver by Bram Stein to detect when your custom fonts have loaded.

See an example custom font implementation below. This assumes fitty has already been called on all elements with class name fit.

<style>
    /* Only set the custom font if it's loaded and ready */
    .fonts-loaded .fit {
        font-family: 'Oswald', serif;
    }
</style>

Notes

• Will not work if the fitty element is not part of the DOM.

• If the parent element of the fitty element has horizontal padding the width calculation will be incorrect. You can fix this by wrapping the fitty element in another element.

<div style="padding-left:100px">
    <h1 class="fit">I'm a wonderful heading</h1>
</div>

<div style="padding-left:100px">
    <div><h1 class="fit">I'm a wonderful heading</h1></div>
</div>

Tested

• Modern browsers
• IE 10+

Note that IE will require CustomEvent polyfill: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CustomEvent/CustomEvent#Polyfill

IE10 will require a polyfill for Object.assign: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/assign

Versioning

Versioning follows Semver.

License

MIT