TextMetrics: actualBoundingBoxLeft property

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The read-only actualBoundingBoxLeft property of the {{domxref("TextMetrics")}} interface is a double giving the distance parallel to the baseline from the alignment point given by the {{domxref("CanvasRenderingContext2D.textAlign")}} property to the left side of the bounding rectangle of the given text, in CSS pixels; positive numbers indicating a distance going left from the given alignment point.

Examples

const canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
const text = ctx.measureText("foo"); // returns TextMetrics object

text.actualBoundingBoxLeft; // 0;

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• {{domxref("TextMetrics")}}