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TextMetrics: actualBoundingBoxLeft property - Web APIs | MDN
TextMetrics: actualBoundingBoxLeft property Baseline Widely available
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.
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
const text = ctx.measureText("foo"); // returns TextMetrics object
text.actualBoundingBoxLeft; // 0;