Drawing text with an outer stroke with HTML5's canvas - Javascript Canvas

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Description

Drawing text with an outer stroke with HTML5's canvas

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<html>
   <head> 
      <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 
      <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script> 
      <script type="text/javascript">
    $(window).load(function(){//from  w  w  w  . j  a  v  a2 s.c o m
var can = document.getElementById('canvas1');
var ctx = can.getContext('2d');
ctx.fillStyle = 'gray';
ctx.fillRect(0,0,500,500);
function drawStroked(text, x, y) {
    ctx.font = "80px Sans-serif"
    ctx.strokeStyle = 'black';
    ctx.lineWidth = 8;
    ctx.lineJoin="miter"; 
    ctx.miterLimit=2;
    ctx.strokeText(text, x, y);
    ctx.fillStyle = 'white';
    ctx.fillText(text, x, y);
}
drawStroked("MVW", 50, 150);
    });

      </script> 
   </head> 
   <body> 
      <canvas id="canvas1" width="500" height="500"></canvas>  
   </body>
</html>

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