Center (proportional font) text in an HTML5 canvas
You can do this by using measureText var canvas = document.getElementById(“canvas”), ctx = canvas.getContext(“2d”) canvas.width = 400; canvas.height = 200; ctx.fillStyle = “#003300″; ctx.font=”20px sans-serif”; var textString = “Hello look at me!!!”, textWidth = ctx.measureText(textString ).width; ctx.fillText(textString , (canvas.width/2) – (textWidth / 2), 100); Live Demo More elaborate demo