The distance from the horizontal line indicated by the textBaseline attribute to the bottom of the em square in the line box, in CSS pixels; positive numbers indicating that the given baseline is below the bottom of the em square (so this value will usually be negative). (Zero if the given baseline is the top of the em square.)
Property of apis/canvas/TextMetricsapis/canvas/TextMetrics
SyntaxNote: This property is read-only.
var result = TextMetrics.emHeightDescent;
Return Value
Returns an object of type NumberNumber
Examples<canvas id="myCanvas" width="300" height="150" style="border:1px solid blue;"></canvas>
<p>. . .</p>
<script>
var can = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var ctxt = can.getContext("2d");
ctxt.font = "24px Arial";
var txt = "Hello world!"
ctxt.fillText(txt, 10, 75);
var mets = ctxt.measureText(txt);
alert("emHeightDescent: " + mets.emHeightDescent);
</script>
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