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# HTML5 Canvas - Text and Fonts

HTML5 canvas provides capabilities to create text using different font an dtext properties listed below:

SN | Property and Description
--- | ---
1 | font [ = value ] This property returns the current font settings and can be set, to change the font.
2 | textAlign [ = value ] This property returns the current text alignment settings and can be set, to change the alignment. The possible values are start, end, left, right, and center.
3 | textBaseline [ = value ] This property returns the current baseline alignment settings and can be set, to change the baseline alignment. The possible values are top, hanging, middle , alphabetic, ideographic and bottom
4 | fillText(text, x, y [, maxWidth ] ) This property fills the given text at the given position indicated by the given coordinates x and y.
5 | strokeText(text, x, y [, maxWidth ] ) This property strokes the given text at the given position indicated by the given coordinates x and y.

# Example:

Following is a simple example which makes use of above mentioned attributes to draw a text:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML>
    <html>
    <head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    function drawShape(){
      // get the canvas element using the DOM
      var canvas = document.getElementById('mycanvas');

      // Make sure we don't execute when canvas isn't supported
      if (canvas.getContext){

        // use getContext to use the canvas for drawing
        var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');

        ctx.fillStyle    = '#00F';
        ctx.font         = 'Italic 30px Sans-Serif';
        ctx.textBaseline = 'Top';
        ctx.fillText  ('Hello world!', 40, 100);

        ctx.font         = 'Bold 30px Sans-Serif';
        ctx.strokeText('Hello world!', 40, 50);

      } else {
        alert('You need Safari or Firefox 1.5+ to see this demo.');
      }
    }
    </script>
    </head>
    <body onload="drawShape();">
       <canvas id="mycanvas"></canvas>
    </body>
    </html>

The above example would produce following result:

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