1# widest-line [](https://travis-ci.org/sindresorhus/widest-line) 2 3> Get the visual width of the widest line in a string - the number of columns required to display it 4 5Some Unicode characters are [fullwidth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms) and use double the normal width. [ANSI escape codes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code) are stripped and doesn't affect the width. 6 7Useful to be able to know the maximum width a string will take up in the terminal. 8 9 10## Install 11 12``` 13$ npm install widest-line 14``` 15 16 17## Usage 18 19```js 20const widestLine = require('widest-line'); 21 22widestLine('古\n\u001B[1m@\u001B[22m'); 23//=> 2 24``` 25 26 27## Related 28 29- [string-width](https://github.com/sindresorhus/string-width) - Get the visual width of a string 30 31 32## License 33 34MIT © [Sindre Sorhus](https://sindresorhus.com) 35
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