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TextMetrics: hangingBaseline property

The read-only hangingBaseline property of the TextMetrics interface is a double giving the distance from the horizontal line indicated by the CanvasRenderingContext2D.textBaseline property to the hanging baseline of the line box, in CSS pixels.

Examples

js

const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
const text = ctx.measureText("foo"); // returns TextMetrics object

text.hangingBaseline; // 6.078125;

Specifications

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
hangingBaseline 118 118 116 No 104 11.1 118 118 116 No 11.3 No

See also

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