The textAlign() function in p5.js is used to set the alignment for the drawing the text. This function accepts two parameter horizAlign and vertAlign. The horizAlign parameter sets the alignment on x-axis and the vertAlign parameter sets the alignment on y-axis.
Syntax:
textAlign( horizAlign, vertAlign)
or
textAlign()
Parameters: This function accepts two parameters as mentioned above and described below:
- horizAlign: This parameter stores the horizontal alignment of the text as (LEFT, CENTER, or RIGHT).
- vertAlign: This parameter stores the vertical alignment of the text as (TOP, BOTTOM, CENTER, or BASELINE).
Below programs illustrate the textAlign() function in p5.js:
Example 1: This example uses textAlign() function to align the content horizontally.
function setup() {           // Create Canvas of given size     createCanvas(380, 150); }   function draw() {           // Set the background color     background(220);           let c = 0.5;           // Use atan() function to calculate     // arc tangent value     let ac = atan(c);           // Set font size     textSize(26);           // Set font color     fill(color('green'));           // Set the text alignment to     // CENTER, RIGHT, LEFT     textAlign(LEFT);     text('GEEKS', 100, 30);     textAlign(CENTER);     text('for', 100, 60);     textAlign(RIGHT);     text('GEEKS', 100, 90); } |
Output:
Example 2: This example uses textAlign() function to align the content vertically.
function setup() {           // Create Canvas of given size     createCanvas(380, 150); }   function draw() {           // Set the background color     background(220);           // Set the text size     textSize(26);           // Set the stroke width     strokeWeight(0.5);           // Set the co-ordinates for line     line(0, height/2, width, height/2);           // set the alignment for the text     textAlign(CENTER, TOP);           // Set the text     text('CENTER', 0, height/2, width); } |
Output:
Reference: https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/textAlign
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