# Change text width or text height without changing size

**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/change-text-width-or-text-height-without-changing-size/18662
**Category:** Coding Questions
**Created:** [March 14, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/change-text-width-or-text-height-without-changing-size/18662 "2020-03-14T18:47:53Z")
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### Author: ![paulgoux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@paulgoux](https://discourse.processing.org/u/paulgoux)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/change-text-width-or-text-height-without-changing-size/18662/1 "2020-03-14T18:47:53Z")

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Is it possible in processing to change the text width or height without size?

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### Author: ![Chrisir](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/chrisir/32/45_2.png) [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/change-text-width-or-text-height-without-changing-size/18662/2 "2020-03-14T20:53:48Z")

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Use textSize or scale ()

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### Author: ![paulgoux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@paulgoux](https://discourse.processing.org/u/paulgoux)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/change-text-width-or-text-height-without-changing-size/18662/3 "2020-03-14T21:45:46Z")

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Scale() is the solution here as i wanted to change width or height but not both.