How to add dashed stroke to a Textbox using FabricJS?

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to add a dashed stroke to a Textbox using FabricJS. We can customize, stretch or move around the text written in a textbox. In order to create a textbox, we will have to create an instance of fabric.Textbox class and add it to the canvas. The strokeDashArray property allows us to specify a dash pattern for the object's stroke.

Syntax

new fabric.Textbox(text: String, { strokeDashArray: Array }: Object)

Parameters

• text ? This parameter accepts a String which is the text string that we want to display inside our textbox.

• options(optional) ? This parameter is an Object which provides additional customizations to our textbox. Using this parameter, properties such as colour, cursor, stroke width, and a lot of other properties can be changed related to the object of which strokeDashArray is a property.

Options Keys

• strokeDashArray ? This property accepts an Array which allows us to specify a dash pattern for the object?s stroke. For example, if we pass an array with the values [2,3], it means a dash pattern of 2px dash and 3px gap and repeating this pattern infinitely.

Example 1

Default appearance of an object?s stroke

Let?s see a code example that depicts the default appearance of the stroke of a textbox object. Since we have not used the strokeDashArray property, there is no dash pattern being displayed.

   
   


   
Default appearance of an object?s stroke
   
You can see there is no dash pattern in the stroke
   
   

Example 2

Passing strokeDashArray property as key

In this example, we are passing the strokeDashArray property a value of [9,2]. This means that a dash pattern will be created such that there is a 9px long line, followed by a 2px gap, then again a 9px long line will be drawn, and so on.

   
   


   
Passing strokeDashArray property as key
   
You can see there is a dash pattern in the stroke now