HTML Canvas Text

Introduction

We can use fillText() to draw text.

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<html>
    <head>
        <script>
            window.onload = function(){
                var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
                var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
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                context.font = "40pt Calibri";
                context.fillStyle = "black";
                // align text horizontally center
                context.textAlign = "center";
                // align text vertically center
                context.textBaseline = "middle";
                context.fillText("Hello World!", canvas.width / 2, 120);
            };
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <canvas id="myCanvas" width="600" height="250" style="border:1px solid black;">
        </canvas>
    </body>
</html>



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