JavaScript canvas2d object property: textAlign
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The textAlign property of the JavaScript
DOM object returned
by the getContext("2d")
method applied to the HTML <canvas>
element sets / returns the CSS text-align
property for the current text.
EXAMPLE:
HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head></head>
<body>
<span id="element"></span>
<script>
var x2 = document.createElement("CANVAS");
x2.setAttribute("width","180");
x2.setAttribute("height","180");
x2.setAttribute("style","border: 1px solid black");
var c2 = x2.getContext("2d");
c2.strokeStyle = "red";
c2.moveTo(90,10);
c2.lineTo(90,170);
c2.stroke();
c2.fillStyle = "blue";
c2.font = "15px Verdana";
c2.textAlign = "start"; c2.fillText("start", 90, 30);
c2.textAlign = "end"; c2.fillText("end", 90, 60);
c2.textAlign = "left"; c2.fillText("left", 90, 90);
c2.textAlign = "center"; c2.fillText("center", 90, 120);
c2.textAlign = "right"; c2.fillText("right", 90, 150);
document.getElementById("element").appendChild(x2);
</script>
</body>
</html>
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