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RGraph is a JavaScript charts library based on HTML5 SVG and canvas. RGraph is mature (over 16 years old) and has a wealth of features making it an ideal choice to use for showing charts on your website.

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Get the latest version of RGraph (version 6.20, 1st December 2024) from the download page. You can read the changelog here. There's also older versions available, minified files and links to cdnjs.com hosted libraries.

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RGraph can be used for free under the GPL or if that doesn't suit your situation there's an inexpensive (£129) commercial license available.

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The textBaseline property

The textBaseline property sets how any text that you draw on the canvas is vertically aligned. By using this property you can control the vertical alignment of whatever text you draw on to the canvas. Remember that if you set this property you may need to reset it or change when drawing subsequent text.

Note that the bottom and ideographic may appear to be very similar in their positioning of the text.

Examples of setting the textBaseline property

These are the possible values for the setting. It should be noted that RGraph only uses three of these values - middle top and bottom.

<script>
    window.onload = function ()
    {
        var canvas  = document.getElementById("cvs");
        var context = canvas.getContext('2d');

        context.textBaseline = 'top';
        // context.textBaseline = 'hanging';
        // context.textBaseline = 'middle';
        // context.textBaseline = 'alphabetic';
        // context.textBaseline = 'ideographic';
        // context.textBaseline = 'bottom';
    
        context.fillText('Some example text', 200, 25);
    }
</script>