HTML 5 canvas font being ignored

Question

I\'m trying to write some text to a canvas element, but it seems that the font options I put in are being completely ignored. No matter what I change them to, it all comes o

Answer 1

That this can also happen if you reset the size of the canvas. At least, I saw this in Chrome 23 today.

context.font = 'bold 20px arial';
canvas.width = 100;
canvas.height = 100;
console.log(context.font); // gives '10px sans-serif'