HTML5 canvas ctx.fillText won't do line breaks?

Question

I can\'t seem to be able to add text to a canvas if the text includes \"\\n\". I mean, the line breaks do not show/work.

ctxPaint.fillText(\"s  ome \\n \\\\n         


        

Answer 1

If you only need two lines of text, you can split them into two different fillText calls and give each one a different baseline.

ctx.textBaseline="bottom";
ctx.fillText("First line", x-position, y-position);
ctx.textBaseline="top";
ctx.fillText("Second line", x-position, y-position);