TextMetrics.emHeightAscent

The read-only emHeightAscent property of the TextMetrics interface is a double giving the distance from the horizontal line indicated by the CanvasRenderingContext2D.textBaseline property to the top of the em square in the line box, in CSS pixels.

Examples

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

text.emHeightAscent; // 7.59765625;

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-textmetrics-emheightascent-dev

Browser compatibility

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See also