Size to fit font on a canvas

I currently have this http://jsfiddle.net/dgAEY/ which works perfectly, I just need to figure out a way to size the font when it gets too long. I’ve looked into Auto-size dynamic text to fill fixed size container and I’ve tried to apply the Jquery function they posted but I couldn’t get it to work.

HTML

<form action="" method="POST" id="nametag" class="nametag">
    Line1: 
    <input type="text" id="line1" name="line1" style="width:250px;" /><br>
    Line2:
    <input type="text" id="line2" name="line2" style="width:250px;" /><br>
    Line3:
    <input type="text" id="line3" name="line3" style="width:250px;" /><br>
    Line4:
    <input type="text" id="line4" name="line4" style="width:250px;" /><br>

    <br><br><b>Name Tag</b><br>
    <canvas width="282px" height="177px" id="myCanvas" style="border: black thin solid;"></canvas>
</form>

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function () {
    var canvas = $('#myCanvas')[0];
    var context = canvas.getContext('2d');

    var imageObj = new Image();
    imageObj.onload = function() {
        context.drawImage(imageObj, 0, 0);
    };
    imageObj.src = "http://dummyimage.com/282x177/FFF/FFF"; 

    $('#nametag').bind('change keyup input', updateCanvas);
    $('#line2').bind('click', updateCanvas);
    $('#line3').bind('click', updateCanvas);
    $('#line4').bind('click', updateCanvas);

    function updateCanvas() {

        context.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
        context.drawImage(imageObj, 0, 0);
        context.textAlign = "center";

        context.font = "bold 18pt Arial";
        context.fillText($('#line1').val(), canvas.width * 0.5, 70);

        context.font = "12pt Arial";
        context.fillText($('#line2').val(), canvas.width * 0.5, 90);
        context.fillText($('#line3').val(), canvas.width * 0.5, 120);
        context.fillText($('#line4').val(), canvas.width * 0.5, 140);

    }
});

Answer

You can use context.measureText to get the pixel width of any given text in the current font.

Then if that width is too big, reduce the font size until it fits.

context.font="14px verdana";

var width = context.measureText("Hello...Do I fit on the canvas?").width

if(width>myDesiredWidth)  // then reduce the font size and re-measure

Demo:

var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");

fitTextOnCanvas("Hello, World!", "verdana", 125);


function fitTextOnCanvas(text, fontface, yPosition) {

  // start with a large font size
  var fontsize = 300;

  // lower the font size until the text fits the canvas
  do {
    fontsize--;
    context.font = fontsize + "px " + fontface;
  } while (context.measureText(text).width > canvas.width)

  // draw the text
  context.fillText(text, 0, yPosition);

  alert("A fontsize of " + fontsize + "px fits this text on the canvas");

}

body {
  background-color: ivory;
}

#canvas {
  border: 1px solid red;
}

<canvas id="canvas" width=300 height=300></canvas>