TextMetrics: actualBoundingBoxLeft property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2020.

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
HTML
# dom-textmetrics-actualboundingboxleft-dev

Browser compatibility

See also