Fabric.js Itext paintFirst Property

Last Updated : 27 Jul, 2021

Fabric.js is a JavaScript library that is used to work with canvas. The canvas Itext is one of the class of Fabric.js that is used to create Itext instances. The canvas Itext means the Itext is movable and can be stretched according to requirement. In this article we will be using the paintFirst property.

First import the Fabric.js library. After importing the library, create a canvas block in the body tag which will contain the Itext. After this, initialize an instance of Canvas and Itext class provided by Fabric.js and use the paintFirst property.

Syntax:

fabric.Itext(Itext, {
  paintFirst: string
});

Parameters: This function takes a single parameter as mentioned above and described below:

paintFirst: It specifies the string value of paintFirst property. The accepted values of this parameter are fill and stroke.

Example: This example uses Fabric.js to set the paintFirst property of the canvas Itext.

HTML

<html>  
<head> 
  <!-- FabricJS CDN -->
  <script src=  
"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fabric.js/3.6.2/fabric.min.js">  
  </script>  
</head>  
<body>  
  <div style="text-align: center; 
              width: 400px;">  
    <h1 style="color: green;">  
      GeeksforGeeks  
    </h1> 
    <b>  
      Fabric.js | Itext paintFirst Property  
    </b>  
  </div>  
  
  <div style="text-align: center;">  
    <canvas id="canvas" 
            width="400" height="200"
      style="border:1px solid green;">  
    </canvas>  
  </div>  
  <script>  
    var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas");  
  
    var geek = new fabric.IText('GeeksforGeeks', { 
        fill:'green',  
        stroke: 'blue',  
        
        paintFirst: 'fill' 
    }); 
      
    console.log(geek.willDrawShadow()) 
    canvas.add(geek); 
    canvas.centerObject(geek);  
  </script>  
</body>  
</html>