Maximum Characters Input Box

What is the fattest letter? i.e. what should I use to test
that content always fits within an input box regardless of what the
user types? Is it the letter "M"? I know M is used as a standard in
other design circles.
Thanks

Thank you. Is there an easy way to do the opposite, have a
user's text adapt to the textfield? For example, I have an input
textField that is 100 pixels in width, single-line, size 20 _sans
font (Maximum Characters turned off for demo. purposes). You can
input 5 "M's" before the field begins scrolling right, or you can
enter 24 lowercase "l's". In this case the input is for a form that
will be printed, therefore scrolling cannot occur (since it wouldnt
show up on the print form), and Maximum characters must be turned
on. So I would have to limit maximum characters to 5 right? In
reality I'm working with much larger textfields, but you get the
idea. Is there a way to set the maximum characters based on user
input?

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