How do I style HTML5 canvas text to be bold and/or italic?

Question

I'm printing text to a canvas in a pretty straight forward way:

var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d'); ctx.font = "10pt Courier"; ctx.fillText("Hello World", 100, 100); 

But how can I change the text to bold, italic or both? Any suggestions to fix that simple example?

Answer 1

You can use any of these:

ctx.font = "italic 10pt Courier";  ctx.font = "bold 10pt Courier";  ctx.font = "italic bold 10pt Courier"; 

For further information, here are a couple of resources:

• Dive into HTML5
• How to display text in canvas
• HTML5 canvas - the basics

Answer 2

Just an additional heads up for anyone who stumbles across this: be sure to follow the order shown in the accepted answer.

I ran into some cross-browser issues when I had the wrong order. Having "10px Verdana bold" works in Chrome, but not in IE or Firefox. Switching it to "bold 10px Verdana" as indicated fixed those problems. Double-check the order if you run into similar problems.