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TextMetrics: actualBoundingBoxLeft property

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 Standard
# dom-textmetrics-actualboundingboxleft-dev

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
actualBoundingBoxLeft 77 79 74 No 64 11.1 77 77 79 55 11.3 12.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextMetrics/actualBoundingBoxLeft