TextMetrics: actualBoundingBoxLeft property

Available in workers

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 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

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

text.actualBoundingBoxLeft; // 0;

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• TextMetrics