TextMetrics: actualBoundingBoxLeft property
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The read-only actualBoundingBoxLeft
property of the TextMetrics
interface is a double
giving the distance parallel to the baseline from the alignment point given by the CanvasRenderingContext2D.textAlign
property to the left side of the bounding rectangle of the given text, in CSS pixels; positive numbers indicating a distance going left from the given alignment point.
Examples
js
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
const text = ctx.measureText("foo"); // returns TextMetrics object
text.actualBoundingBoxLeft; // 0;
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-textmetrics-actualboundingboxleft-dev |
Browser compatibility
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