How to Set Size and Style of HTML5 Canvas Text
In this article I have described how to set the style and size of Canvas Text in HTML5.
Canvas Text in HTML5
- Canvas element has a property to set the font and style of text in HTML5.
- With the help of these properties we can set the style and size of canvas text.
- We can set it to italic, bold etc by default it is set to normal.
Syntax
The syntax to set the property of canvas element
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<script>
context.font = 'italic 50px Times New Roman';
</script>
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Lets take an Example
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<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<script>
window.onload = function ()
{
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
context.font = "italic 40pt Arial Black";
context.fillText("welcome", 150, 100);
};
</script>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="578" height="200"></canvas>
</body>
</html>
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OUTPUT
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