TextMetrics: width property
The read-only width
property of the TextMetrics
interface contains the text's advance width (the width of that inline box) in CSS pixels.
Examples
Start with this <canvas>
element:
html
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
You can get a TextMetrics
object using the following code:
js
const canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
let text = ctx.measureText("foo"); // TextMetrics object
text.width; // 16;
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-textmetrics-width-dev |
Browser compatibility
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