Fit text perfectly inside a div (height and width) without affecting the size of the div

Here's the same answer, but in Javascript

var autoSizeText;

autoSizeText = function() {
  var el, elements, _i, _len, _results;
  elements = $('.resize');
  console.log(elements);
  if (elements.length < 0) {
    return;
  }
  _results = [];
  for (_i = 0, _len = elements.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
    el = elements[_i];
    _results.push((function(el) {
      var resizeText, _results1;
      resizeText = function() {
        var elNewFontSize;
        elNewFontSize = (parseInt($(el).css('font-size').slice(0, -2)) - 1) + 'px';
        return $(el).css('font-size', elNewFontSize);
      };
      _results1 = [];
      while (el.scrollHeight > el.offsetHeight) {
        _results1.push(resizeText());
      }
       return _results1;
    })(el));
  }
  return _results;
};

$(document).ready(function() {
  return autoSizeText();
});

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I was wanting something similar myself recently:

<div class='container'>
    <div class='no-resize'>This text won't be resized and will go out of the div.</div>
    <div class='resize'>This text will be resized and wont go out of the div.</div>
</div>

And

.no-resize, .resize {
    width: 100px;
    height: 50px;
    border: 1px solid #000;
    color: #000;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 10px;
    font-size: 15px
}

Fiddler at jsfiddle.net/mn4rr/1/.

I don't have enough reputation to comment on the accepted answer so I made an answer. If height has a css3 transition on it the autoSizeText() and $.resizeText answers above have issues. I made a short jquery plugin to fix this.

$.fn.resizeText = function (options) {

    var settings = $.extend({ maxfont: 40, minfont: 4 }, options);

    var style = $('<style>').html('.nodelays ' +
    '{ ' +
        '-moz-transition: none !important; ' +
        '-webkit-transition: none !important;' +
        '-o-transition: none !important; ' +
        'transition: none !important;' +
    '}');

    function shrink(el, fontsize, minfontsize)
    {
        if (fontsize < minfontsize) return;

        el.style.fontSize = fontsize + 'px';

        if (el.scrollHeight > el.offsetHeight) shrink(el, fontsize - 1, minfontsize);
    }

    $('head').append(style);

    $(this).each(function(index, el)
    {
        var element = $(el);

        element.addClass('nodelays');

        shrink(el, settings.maxfont, settings.minfont);

        element.removeClass('nodelays');
    });

    style.remove();
}

To use this plugin you only need to call

 $(selector).resizeText();

I hope this saves someone else some time troubleshooting. I wasted a good 20 minutes scratching my head wondering why the code above was causing an infinite loop on my page.