How can I write text on a HTML5 canvas element

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Is it possible to write text on HTML5 canvas

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Canvas text support is actually pretty good - you can control font  size  color  horizontal alignment  vertical alignment  and you can also get text metrics to get the text width in pixels  In addition  you can also use canvas transforms to rotate  stretch and even invert text

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I found a good tutorial on oreilly com   Example code    lt canvas id  canvas  width   600px  gt  lt  canvas gt  lt br   gt  Enter your Text here  The Text will get drawn on the canvas lt br   gt   lt input type  text  id  text  onKeydown  func     gt  lt  input gt  lt br   gt   lt  body gt  lt br   gt   lt script gt  function func    var e document getElementById  text   t document getElementById  canvas   n t getContext  2d    n fillStyle   990000  n font  30px futura  n textBaseline  top  n fillText e value 150 0  n fillText  thank you    200 100   n fillText  Created by ashish  250 120     lt  script gt    courtesy   Ashish Nautiyal

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Drawing text on a Canvas Markup   lt canvas id  quot myCanvas quot  width  quot 300 quot  height  quot 150 quot  gt  lt  canvas gt   Script  with few different options    lt script gt      var canvas   document getElementById  myCanvas        var ctx   canvas getContext  2d        ctx font    italic 18px Arial       ctx textAlign    center       ctx  textBaseline    middle       ctx fillStyle    red       a color name or by using rgb rgba hex values     ctx fillText  Hello World    150  50      text and position  lt  script gt   Check out the MDN documentation and this JSFiddle example

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Yes of course you can write a text on canvas with ease  and you can set the font name  font size and font color  There are two method to build a text on Canvas  i e  fillText   and strokeText     fillText   method is used to make a text that can only be filled with color  whereas strokeText   is used to make a text that can only be given an outline color  So if we want to build a text that filled with color and have outline color  we must use both of them   here the full example  how to write text on canvas     lt canvas id  Canvas01  width  400  height  200  style  border 2px solid  bbb  margin-left 10px  margin-top 10px   gt  lt  canvas gt    lt script gt    var canvas   document getElementById  Canvas01      var ctx   canvas getContext  2d       ctx fillStyle   red     ctx font    italic bold 35pt Tahoma       syntax    fillText  text   x  y    ctx fillText  StacOverFlow  30 80     lt  script gt    Here the demo for this  and you can try your self for any modification  http   okeschool com examples canvas html5-canvas-text-color

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It is really easy to write text on a canvas  It was not clear if you want someone to enter text in the HTML page and then have that text appear on the canvas  or if you were going to use JavaScript to write the information to the screen   The following code will write some text in different fonts and formats to your canvas  You can modify this as you wish to test other aspects of writing onto a canvas     lt canvas id  YourCanvasNameHere  width  500  height  500  gt Canvas not supported lt  canvas gt    var c   document getElementById  YourCanvasNameHere     var context   c getContext  2d      returns drawing functions to allow the user to draw on the canvas with graphic tools     You can either place the canvas ID tag in the HTML and then reference the name or you can create the canvas in the JavaScript code  I think that for the most part I see the  lt canvas gt  tag in the HTML code and on occasion see it created dynamically in the JavaScript code itself   Code     var canvas   document getElementById  myCanvas      var context   canvas getContext  2d       context font    bold 10pt Calibri     context fillText  Hello World    150  100     context font    italic 40pt Times Roman     context fillStyle    blue     context fillText  Hello World    200  150     context font    60pt Calibri     context lineWidth   4    context strokeStyle    blue     context strokeText  Hello World    70  70

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Depends on what you want to do with it I guess  If you just want to write some normal text you can use  fillText

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It is easy to write text to a canvas  Lets say that you canvas is declared like below    lt html gt     lt canvas id  YourCanvas  width  500  height  500  gt     Your Internet Browser does not support HTML5  Get a new Browser     lt  canvas gt   lt  html gt    This part of the code returns a variable into canvas which is a representation of your canvas in HTML     var c    document getElementById  YourCanvas      The following code returns the methods for drawing lines  text  fills to your canvas     var ctx   canvas getContext  2d      lt script gt    ctx font  20px Times Roman     ctx fillText  Hello World   50 100      ctx font  30px Verdana      var g   ctx createLinearGradient 0 0 c width 0      g addColorStop  0   magenta      g addColorStop  0 3   blue      g addColorStop  1 0   red       ctx fillStyle g    Sets the fille of your text here  In this case it is set to the gradient that was created above  But you could set it to Red  Green  Blue or whatever     ctx fillText  This is some new and funny TEXT   40 190    lt  script gt    There is a beginners guide out on Amazon for the kindle http   www amazon com HTML5-Canvas-Guide-Beginners-ebook dp B00JSFVY9O ref sr 1 4 ie UTF8 amp qid 1398113376 amp sr 8-4 amp keywords html5 canvas beginners that is well worth the money  I purchased it a couple of days ago and it showed me a lot of simple techniques that were very useful

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