Draw a text with gradient color - Javascript Canvas Reference

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Draw a text with gradient color

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<canvas id="myCanvas" width="300" height="250" style="border:1px solid #d3d3d3;">
Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas tag.</canvas>

<script>

var c = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var ctx = c.getContext("2d");

ctx.font = "30px Verdana";

// Create gradient
var gradient = ctx.createLinearGradient(0, 0, c.width, 0);
gradient.addColorStop("0", "magenta");
gradient.addColorStop("0.5", "blue");
gradient.addColorStop("1.0", "red");

// Fill with gradient
ctx.strokeStyle = gradient;/*from  ww  w . j  ava2s .c  o  m*/
ctx.strokeText("from java2s.com", 10, 50);

</script>

</body>
</html>

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