The HTML5 Canvas Text API - HTML5 Canvas - page 143

fillText and strokeText

The context.fillText() function (as shown in Figure 3-1 ) will render solid-colored text to
the canvas. The color used is set in the context.fillColor property. The font used is set in
the context.font property. The function call looks like this:

fillText ([ text ],[ x ],[ y ],[ maxWidth ]);

where:

text text

The text to render on the canvas.

x

The x position of the text on the canvas.

y

The y position of the text on the canvas.

maxWidth

The maximum width of the text as rendered on the canvas. At the time of this writing,
support for this property was just being added to browsers.