TextMetrics: emHeightAscent property
Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The read-only emHeightAscent
property of the TextMetrics
interface is a double
giving the distance from the horizontal line indicated by the CanvasRenderingContext2D.textBaseline
property to the top of the em square in 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.emHeightAscent; // 7.59765625;
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-textmetrics-emheightascent-dev |
Browser compatibility
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