PixiJS HTMLText

An alternative to PIXI.Text that works with both WebGL and Canvas, however, it has some advantages:

• Supports HTML tags for styling such as <strong>, or <em>, as well as <span style="">
• Better support for emojis and other HTML layout features, better compatibility with CSS line-height and letter-spacing.

Disadvantages:

• Unlike PIXI.Text, HTMLText rendering will vary slightly between platforms and browsers. HTMLText uses SVG/DOM to render text and not Context2D's fillText like PIXI.Text.
• Performance and memory usage is on-par with PIXI.Text (that is to say, slow and heavy)
• Only works with browsers that support <foreignObject>.

Usage

1import { HTMLText } from 'pixi.js';
2
3const text = new HTMLText("Hello World", { fontSize: 20 });

Important: Because the HTMLText object takes a raw HTML string, it's represents a potential vector for XSS, it's strongly encourage you santize input especially if you're accepting user-strings.

Custom Fonts

Because rendering within a <foreignObject> element does not have access to fonts available in the current document, therefore, you need to load the fonts explicitly.

1const text = new HTMLText("Hello World", { fontFamily: 'Custom' });
2
3await text.style.loadFont('./path/to/custom-regular.ttf', { family: 'Custom' });

Multiple Weights

1const text = new HTMLText("Hello <b>World</b>", { fontFamily: 'Custom' });
2
3await Promise.all([
4    text.style.loadFont('./path/to/custom-regular.ttf', { family: 'Custom' }),
5    text.style.loadFont('./path/to/custom-bold.ttf', { family: 'Custom', weight: 'bold' });
6]);

Styles

Not all styles and values are compatible between PIXI.Text, mainly because Text is rendered using a DOM element instead of Context2D's fillText API.

Supported

• fill
• fontFamily
• fontSize
• fontWeight
• fontStyle
• fontVariant
• letterSpacing †
• align (also supports justify value)
• padding
• breakWords
• lineHeight †
• whiteSpace (also supports nowrap, pre-wrap values)
• wordWrap
• wordWrapWidth
• strokeThickness ‡
• dropShadow ‡
• dropShadowAngle
• dropShadowDistance
• dropShadowBlur ‡
• dropShadowColor
• stroke
• strokeThickness

† Values may differ slightly from PIXI.Text rendering. ‡ Appearance may differ slightly between different browsers.

Unsupported

• fillGradientStops
• fillGradientType
• lineJoin
• miterLimit
• textBaseline
• trim
• leading