p5.js textAlign() Function

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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)

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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