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 actualBoundingBoxRight 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 right side of the bounding rectangle of the given text, in CSS pixels.
const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
const text = ctx.measureText("foo"); // returns TextMetrics object
text.actualBoundingBoxRight; // 15.633333333333333;
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-textmetrics-actualboundingboxright-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
actualBoundingBoxRight |
77 | 79 | 74 | 64 | 11.1 | 77 | 79 | 55 | 11.3 | 12.0 | 77 | 11.3 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextMetrics/actualBoundingBoxRight