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TextMetrics: ideographicBaseline property

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The read-only ideographicBaseline property of the {{domxref("TextMetrics")}} interface is a double giving the distance from the horizontal line indicated by the {{domxref("CanvasRenderingContext2D.textBaseline")}} property to the ideographic baseline of the line box, in CSS pixels.

Examples

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

text.ideographicBaseline; // -1.201171875;

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

  • {{domxref("TextMetrics")}}