TextMetrics.fontBoundingBoxDescent

The read-only fontBoundingBoxDescent property of the TextMetrics interface is a double giving the distance from the horizontal line indicated by the CanvasRenderingContext2D.textBaseline attribute to the bottom of the bounding rectangle of all the fonts used to render the text, in CSS pixels.

Examples

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

text.fontBoundingBoxDescent; // 3;

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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fontBoundingBoxDescent
87
Yes
79
74
No
73
11.1
87
87
Yes
No
No
11.3
14.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TextMetrics/fontBoundingBoxDescent