Raphael JS and Text positioning?

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RadiantHex picture RadiantHex · Jan 23, 2010 · Viewed 29.7k times · Source

I'm trying to position text within the SVG canvas, by supplying x, y coordinates

var t = paper.text(50, 50, "Raphaël\nkicks\nbutt!");

but does not position the text like all other objects...

x, y coordinates specify the center of the object! Not the "left and top most" pixel!

I would like to "left align" the text along a line, same as standard HTML.

Help would be very much appreciated.

Answer

Dasha Salo picture Dasha Salo · Sep 29, 2010

Text-anchor property for text method is set to 'middle' by default.

If you want to left align it then change text-anchor in attributes for the object:

var t = paper.text(50, 50, "Raphaël\nkicks\nbutt!").attr({'text-anchor': 'start'});

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