TextMetrics: emHeightDescent property
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The read-only emHeightDescent
property of the TextMetrics
interface returns the distance from the horizontal line indicated by the CanvasRenderingContext2D.textBaseline
property to the bottom of the em square in the line box, in CSS pixels.
Value
A number, in CSS pixels.
Examples
js
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
const text = ctx.measureText("foo"); // returns TextMetrics object
text.emHeightDescent; // -2.40234375;
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-textmetrics-emheightdescent-dev |
Browser compatibility
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