TextMetrics: actualBoundingBoxAscent property

Available in workers

The read-only actualBoundingBoxAscent property of the TextMetrics interface is a double giving the distance from the horizontal line indicated by the textBaseline attribute to the top of the bounding rectangle used to render the text, in CSS pixels.

Examples

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

text.actualBoundingBoxAscent; // 8;

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• TextMetrics