TextMetrics: emHeightDescent property

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The read-only emHeightDescent property of the TextMetrics interface is a double giving the distance from the horizontal line indicated by the CanvasRenderingContext2D.textBaseline property to the bottom 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.emHeightDescent; // -2.40234375;

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-textmetrics-emheightdescent-dev

Browser compatibility

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See also