Canvas textBaseline Property

Watch a demo of different values of the textBaseline property.

Or click a specific value to see the result:

textBaseline = 'alphabetic';
textBaseline = 'bottom';
textBaseline = 'hanging';
textBaseline = 'ideographic';
textBaseline = 'middle';
textBaseline = 'top';
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const c = document.getElementById('myCanvas');
const ctx = c.getContext('2d');
ctx.moveTo(5,50);
ctx.lineTo(200,50);
ctx.stroke();
ctx.textBaseline='bottom';
ctx.font='30px Arial';
ctx.fillText('Hello World',20,50);

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