How to create a Textbox with background colour using FabricJS?


In this tutorial, we are going to create a Textbox with background colour using FabricJs. We can customize, stretch or move around the text written in a textbox. We can also customize the text itself by using properties like fontSize, fontFamily, fontStyle, fontWeight etc. In order to create a textbox, we will have to create an instance of fabric.Textbox class and add it to the canvas. The backgroundColor property allows us to assign a colour to our object’s background and it is rectangular in shape for the textbox.

Syntax

new fabric.Textbox(text: String, { backgroundColor: String }: 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 Textbox of which backgroundColor is a property.

Options Keys

  • backgroundColor − This property accepts a String value which determines the background colour.

Example 1

Passing backgroundColor property as key with a hexadecimal value

Let’s see a code example to assign a background colour to our Textbox object using hexadecimal value of colour. In this example we have used the hex colour code "#ffe4e1" which is a very light shade of red.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <!-- Adding the Fabric JS Library-->
   <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fabric.js/510/fabric.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
   <h2>Passing backgroundColor property as key with a hexadecimal value</h2>
   <p>You can see that the background colour is a very light shade of red.</p>
   <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
   <script>
      // Initiate a canvas instance
      var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas");
      canvas.setWidth(document.body.scrollWidth);
      canvas.setHeight(250);

      // Initiate a textbox object
      var textbox = new fabric.Textbox("Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.", {
         backgroundColor: "#ffe4e1",
         width: 400,
         top: 70,
         left: 110,
      });

      // Add it to the canvas
      canvas.add(textbox);
   </script>
</body>
</html>

Example 2

Passing backgroundColor property as key with a rgba value

We can use an RGBA value, instead of a hexadecimal colour code, which stands for − red, green, blue and alpha. The alpha parameter specifies the opacity of a colour. In this example, we have used the rgba value (0,206,209,0.4) which is the colour dark turquoise with 0.4 opacity.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <!-- Adding the Fabric JS Library-->
   <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fabric.js/510/fabric.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
   <h2>Passing backgroundColor property as key with an RGBA value</h2>
   <p>You can see that the background colour is a dark turquoise colour with 0.4 opacity.</p>
   <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
   <script>
      // Initiate a canvas instance
      var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas");
      canvas.setWidth(document.body.scrollWidth);
      canvas.setHeight(250);

      // Initiate a textbox object
      var textbox = new fabric.Textbox("Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.", {
         backgroundColor: "rgba(0,206,209, 0.4)",
         width: 400,
         top: 70,
         left: 110,
      });

      // Add it to the canvas
      canvas.add(textbox);
   </script>
</body>
</html>

Updated on: 29-Jul-2022

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