How can I write text on a HTML5 canvas element?

Question

Is it possible to write text on HTML5 canvas?

Answer 1

It is easy to write text to a canvas. Lets say that you canvas is declared like below.

  
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This part of the code returns a variable into canvas which is a representation of your canvas in HTML.

  var c  = document.getElementById("YourCanvas");

The following code returns the methods for drawing lines, text, fills to your canvas.

  var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");

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