typo

* feat: add line height attribute to text element

* lint

* update line height when redrawing text bounding box

* fix tests

* retain line height when pasting styles

* fix test

* create a util for calculating ling height using old algo

* update line height when resizing multiple text elements

* make line height backward compatible

* udpate line height for older element when font size updated

* remove logs

* Add specs

* lint

* review fixes

* simplify by changing `lineHeight` from px to unitless

* make param non-optional

* update comment

* fix: jumping text due to font size being calculated incorrectly

* update line height when font family is updated

* lint

* Add spec

* more specs

* rename to getDefaultLineHeight

* fix getting lineHeight for potentially undefined fontFamily

* reduce duplication

* fix fallback

* refactor and comment tweaks

* fix

---------

Co-authored-by: dwelle <luzar.david@gmail.com>

src/actions/actionBoundText.tsx

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ import { mutateElement } from "../element/mutateElement";
 import {
   computeContainerDimensionForBoundText,
   getBoundTextElement,
-  measureText,
   redrawTextBoundingBox,
 } from "../element/textElement";
+import { measureText } from "../element/textMeasurements";
 import {
   getOriginalContainerHeightFromCache,
   resetOriginalContainerCache,
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ export const actionUnbindText = register({
         const { width, height } = measureText(
           boundTextElement.originalText,
           getFontString(boundTextElement),
+          boundTextElement.lineHeight,
         );
         const originalContainerHeight = getOriginalContainerHeightFromCache(
           element.id,
@@ -239,15 +240,23 @@ export const actionCreateContainerFromText = register({
           linearElementIds.includes(ele.id),
         ) as ExcalidrawLinearElement[];
         linearElements.forEach((ele) => {
-          let startBinding = null;
+          let startBinding = ele.startBinding;
-          let endBinding = null;
+          let endBinding = ele.endBinding;
-          if (ele.startBinding) {
+
-            startBinding = { ...ele.startBinding, elementId: container.id };
+          if (startBinding?.elementId === textElement.id) {
+            startBinding = {
+              ...startBinding,
+              elementId: container.id,
+            };
           }
-          if (ele.endBinding) {
+
-            endBinding = { ...ele.endBinding, elementId: container.id };
+          if (endBinding?.elementId === textElement.id) {
+            endBinding = { ...endBinding, elementId: container.id };
+          }
+
+          if (startBinding || endBinding) {
+            mutateElement(ele, { startBinding, endBinding });
           }
-          mutateElement(ele, { startBinding, endBinding });
         });
       }
 

src/actions/actionProperties.tsx

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ import {
   getBoundTextElement,
   getContainerElement,
 } from "../element/textElement";
+import { getDefaultLineHeight } from "../element/textMeasurements";
 import {
   isBoundToContainer,
   isLinearElement,
@@ -637,6 +638,7 @@ export const actionChangeFontFamily = register({
               oldElement,
               {
                 fontFamily: value,
+                lineHeight: getDefaultLineHeight(value),
               },
             );
             redrawTextBoundingBox(newElement, getContainerElement(oldElement));

src/actions/actionStyles.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import {
   getDefaultRoundnessTypeForElement,
 } from "../element/typeChecks";
 import { getSelectedElements } from "../scene";
+import { getDefaultLineHeight } from "../element/textMeasurements";
 
 // `copiedStyles` is exported only for tests.
 export let copiedStyles: string = "{}";
@@ -92,12 +93,18 @@ export const actionPasteStyles = register({
           });
 
           if (isTextElement(newElement)) {
+            const fontSize =
+              elementStylesToCopyFrom?.fontSize || DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE;
+            const fontFamily =
+              elementStylesToCopyFrom?.fontFamily || DEFAULT_FONT_FAMILY;
             newElement = newElementWith(newElement, {
-              fontSize: elementStylesToCopyFrom?.fontSize || DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE,
+              fontSize,
-              fontFamily:
+              fontFamily,
-                elementStylesToCopyFrom?.fontFamily || DEFAULT_FONT_FAMILY,
               textAlign:
                 elementStylesToCopyFrom?.textAlign || DEFAULT_TEXT_ALIGN,
+              lineHeight:
+                elementStylesToCopyFrom.lineHeight ||
+                getDefaultLineHeight(fontFamily),
             });
             let container = null;
             if (newElement.containerId) {

src/components/App.tsx

@@ -260,17 +260,20 @@ import throttle from "lodash.throttle";
 import { fileOpen, FileSystemHandle } from "../data/filesystem";
 import {
   bindTextToShapeAfterDuplication,
-  getApproxLineHeight,
-  getApproxMinLineHeight,
-  getApproxMinLineWidth,
   getBoundTextElement,
   getContainerCenter,
   getContainerDims,
   getContainerElement,
   getTextBindableContainerAtPosition,
-  isMeasureTextSupported,
   isValidTextContainer,
 } from "../element/textElement";
+import {
+  getApproxMinContainerHeight,
+  getApproxMinContainerWidth,
+  isMeasureTextSupported,
+  getLineHeightInPx,
+  getDefaultLineHeight,
+} from "../element/textMeasurements";
 import { isHittingElementNotConsideringBoundingBox } from "../element/collision";
 import {
   normalizeLink,
@@ -1731,12 +1734,14 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
       (acc: ExcalidrawTextElement[], line, idx) => {
         const text = line.trim();
 
+        const lineHeight = getDefaultLineHeight(textElementProps.fontFamily);
         if (text.length) {
           const element = newTextElement({
             ...textElementProps,
             x,
             y: currentY,
             text,
+            lineHeight,
           });
           acc.push(element);
           currentY += element.height + LINE_GAP;
@@ -1745,14 +1750,9 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
           // add paragraph only if previous line was not empty, IOW don't add
           // more than one empty line
           if (prevLine) {
-            const defaultLineHeight = getApproxLineHeight(
+            currentY +=
-              getFontString({
+              getLineHeightInPx(textElementProps.fontSize, lineHeight) +
-                fontSize: textElementProps.fontSize,
+              LINE_GAP;
-                fontFamily: textElementProps.fontFamily,
-              }),
-            );
-
-            currentY += defaultLineHeight + LINE_GAP;
           }
         }
 
@@ -2607,6 +2607,13 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
       existingTextElement = this.getTextElementAtPosition(sceneX, sceneY);
     }
 
+    const fontFamily =
+      existingTextElement?.fontFamily || this.state.currentItemFontFamily;
+
+    const lineHeight =
+      existingTextElement?.lineHeight || getDefaultLineHeight(fontFamily);
+    const fontSize = this.state.currentItemFontSize;
+
     if (
       !existingTextElement &&
       shouldBindToContainer &&
@@ -2614,11 +2621,14 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
       !isArrowElement(container)
     ) {
       const fontString = {
-        fontSize: this.state.currentItemFontSize,
+        fontSize,
-        fontFamily: this.state.currentItemFontFamily,
+        fontFamily,
       };
-      const minWidth = getApproxMinLineWidth(getFontString(fontString));
+      const minWidth = getApproxMinContainerWidth(
-      const minHeight = getApproxMinLineHeight(getFontString(fontString));
+        getFontString(fontString),
+        lineHeight,
+      );
+      const minHeight = getApproxMinContainerHeight(fontSize, lineHeight);
       const containerDims = getContainerDims(container);
       const newHeight = Math.max(containerDims.height, minHeight);
       const newWidth = Math.max(containerDims.width, minWidth);
@@ -2652,8 +2662,8 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
           opacity: this.state.currentItemOpacity,
           roundness: null,
           text: "",
-          fontSize: this.state.currentItemFontSize,
+          fontSize,
-          fontFamily: this.state.currentItemFontFamily,
+          fontFamily,
           textAlign: parentCenterPosition
             ? "center"
             : this.state.currentItemTextAlign,
@@ -2663,6 +2673,7 @@ class App extends React.Component<AppProps, AppState> {
           containerId: shouldBindToContainer ? container?.id : undefined,
           groupIds: container?.groupIds ?? [],
           locked: false,
+          lineHeight,
         });
 
     if (!existingTextElement && shouldBindToContainer && container) {

src/data/index.ts

@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ export const exportCanvas = async (
     return await fileSave(blob, {
       description: "Export to PNG",
       name,
-      extension: appState.exportEmbedScene ? "excalidraw.png" : "png",
+      // FIXME reintroduce `excalidraw.png` when most people upgrade away
+      // from 111.0.5563.64 (arm64), see #6349
+      extension: /* appState.exportEmbedScene ? "excalidraw.png" : */ "png",
       fileHandle,
     });
   } else if (type === "clipboard") {

src/data/restore.ts

@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ import { getUpdatedTimestamp, updateActiveTool } from "../utils";
 import { arrayToMap } from "../utils";
 import oc from "open-color";
 import { MarkOptional, Mutable } from "../utility-types";
+import {
+  detectLineHeight,
+  getDefaultLineHeight,
+} from "../element/textMeasurements";
 
 type RestoredAppState = Omit<
   AppState,
@@ -165,17 +169,32 @@ const restoreElement = (
         const [fontPx, _fontFamily]: [string, string] = (
           element as any
         ).font.split(" ");
-        fontSize = parseInt(fontPx, 10);
+        fontSize = parseFloat(fontPx);
         fontFamily = getFontFamilyByName(_fontFamily);
       }
+      const text = element.text ?? "";
+
       element = restoreElementWithProperties(element, {
         fontSize,
         fontFamily,
-        text: element.text ?? "",
+        text,
         textAlign: element.textAlign || DEFAULT_TEXT_ALIGN,
         verticalAlign: element.verticalAlign || DEFAULT_VERTICAL_ALIGN,
         containerId: element.containerId ?? null,
-        originalText: element.originalText || element.text,
+        originalText: element.originalText || text,
+        // line-height might not be specified either when creating elements
+        // programmatically, or when importing old diagrams.
+        // For the latter we want to detect the original line height which
+        // will likely differ from our per-font fixed line height we now use,
+        // to maintain backward compatibility.
+        lineHeight:
+          element.lineHeight ||
+          (element.height
+            ? // detect line-height from current element height and font-size
+              detectLineHeight(element)
+            : // no element height likely means programmatic use, so default
+              // to a fixed line height
+              getDefaultLineHeight(element.fontFamily)),
       });
 
       if (refreshDimensions) {

src/element/collision.ts

@@ -786,7 +786,12 @@ export const findFocusPointForEllipse = (
       orientation * py * Math.sqrt(Math.max(0, squares - a ** 2 * b ** 2))) /
     squares;
 
-  const n = (-m * px - 1) / py;
+  let n = (-m * px - 1) / py;
+
+  if (n === 0) {
+    // if zero {-0, 0}, fall back to a same-sign value in the similar range
+    n = (Object.is(n, -0) ? -1 : 1) * 0.01;
+  }
 
   const x = -(a ** 2 * m) / (n ** 2 * b ** 2 + m ** 2 * a ** 2);
   return GA.point(x, (-m * x - 1) / n);

src/element/newElement.ts

@@ -25,14 +25,17 @@ import {
   getBoundTextElementOffset,
   getContainerDims,
   getContainerElement,
-  measureText,
   normalizeText,
-  wrapText,
+  getBoundTextMaxWidth,
-  getMaxContainerWidth,
 } from "./textElement";
 import { VERTICAL_ALIGN } from "../constants";
 import { isArrowElement } from "./typeChecks";
 import { MarkOptional, Merge, Mutable } from "../utility-types";
+import {
+  measureText,
+  wrapText,
+  getDefaultLineHeight,
+} from "./textMeasurements";
 
 type ElementConstructorOpts = MarkOptional<
   Omit<ExcalidrawGenericElement, "id" | "type" | "isDeleted" | "updated">,
@@ -137,10 +140,12 @@ export const newTextElement = (
     textAlign: TextAlign;
     verticalAlign: VerticalAlign;
     containerId?: ExcalidrawTextContainer["id"];
+    lineHeight?: ExcalidrawTextElement["lineHeight"];
   } & ElementConstructorOpts,
 ): NonDeleted<ExcalidrawTextElement> => {
+  const lineHeight = opts.lineHeight || getDefaultLineHeight(opts.fontFamily);
   const text = normalizeText(opts.text);
-  const metrics = measureText(text, getFontString(opts));
+  const metrics = measureText(text, getFontString(opts), lineHeight);
   const offsets = getTextElementPositionOffsets(opts, metrics);
   const textElement = newElementWith(
     {
@@ -156,6 +161,7 @@ export const newTextElement = (
       height: metrics.height,
       containerId: opts.containerId || null,
       originalText: text,
+      lineHeight,
     },
     {},
   );
@@ -176,6 +182,7 @@ const getAdjustedDimensions = (
   const { width: nextWidth, height: nextHeight } = measureText(
     nextText,
     getFontString(element),
+    element.lineHeight,
   );
   const { textAlign, verticalAlign } = element;
   let x: number;
@@ -185,7 +192,11 @@ const getAdjustedDimensions = (
     verticalAlign === VERTICAL_ALIGN.MIDDLE &&
     !element.containerId
   ) {
-    const prevMetrics = measureText(element.text, getFontString(element));
+    const prevMetrics = measureText(
+      element.text,
+      getFontString(element),
+      element.lineHeight,
+    );
     const offsets = getTextElementPositionOffsets(element, {
       width: nextWidth - prevMetrics.width,
       height: nextHeight - prevMetrics.height,
@@ -261,7 +272,7 @@ export const refreshTextDimensions = (
     text = wrapText(
       text,
       getFontString(textElement),
-      getMaxContainerWidth(container),
+      getBoundTextMaxWidth(container),
     );
   }
   const dimensions = getAdjustedDimensions(textElement, text);

src/element/resizeElements.ts

@@ -39,15 +39,16 @@ import {
 import { Point, PointerDownState } from "../types";
 import Scene from "../scene/Scene";
 import {
-  getApproxMinLineHeight,
-  getApproxMinLineWidth,
   getBoundTextElement,
   getBoundTextElementId,
   getContainerElement,
   handleBindTextResize,
-  getMaxContainerWidth,
+  getBoundTextMaxWidth,
 } from "./textElement";
-
+import {
+  getApproxMinContainerHeight,
+  getApproxMinContainerWidth,
+} from "./textMeasurements";
 export const normalizeAngle = (angle: number): number => {
   if (angle >= 2 * Math.PI) {
     return angle - 2 * Math.PI;
@@ -201,7 +202,7 @@ const measureFontSizeFromWidth = (
   if (hasContainer) {
     const container = getContainerElement(element);
     if (container) {
-      width = getMaxContainerWidth(container);
+      width = getBoundTextMaxWidth(container);
     }
   }
   const nextFontSize = element.fontSize * (nextWidth / width);
@@ -360,7 +361,7 @@ export const resizeSingleElement = (
   let scaleX = atStartBoundsWidth / boundsCurrentWidth;
   let scaleY = atStartBoundsHeight / boundsCurrentHeight;
 
-  let boundTextFont: { fontSize?: number } = {};
+  let boundTextFontSize: number | null = null;
   const boundTextElement = getBoundTextElement(element);
 
   if (transformHandleDirection.includes("e")) {
@@ -410,9 +411,7 @@ export const resizeSingleElement = (
       boundTextElement.id,
     ) as typeof boundTextElement | undefined;
     if (stateOfBoundTextElementAtResize) {
-      boundTextFont = {
+      boundTextFontSize = stateOfBoundTextElementAtResize.fontSize;
-        fontSize: stateOfBoundTextElementAtResize.fontSize,
-      };
     }
     if (shouldMaintainAspectRatio) {
       const updatedElement = {
@@ -423,17 +422,21 @@ export const resizeSingleElement = (
 
       const nextFontSize = measureFontSizeFromWidth(
         boundTextElement,
-        getMaxContainerWidth(updatedElement),
+        getBoundTextMaxWidth(updatedElement),
       );
       if (nextFontSize === null) {
         return;
       }
-      boundTextFont = {
+      boundTextFontSize = nextFontSize;
-        fontSize: nextFontSize,
-      };
     } else {
-      const minWidth = getApproxMinLineWidth(getFontString(boundTextElement));
+      const minWidth = getApproxMinContainerWidth(
-      const minHeight = getApproxMinLineHeight(getFontString(boundTextElement));
+        getFontString(boundTextElement),
+        boundTextElement.lineHeight,
+      );
+      const minHeight = getApproxMinContainerHeight(
+        boundTextElement.fontSize,
+        boundTextElement.lineHeight,
+      );
       eleNewWidth = Math.ceil(Math.max(eleNewWidth, minWidth));
       eleNewHeight = Math.ceil(Math.max(eleNewHeight, minHeight));
     }
@@ -566,8 +569,10 @@ export const resizeSingleElement = (
     });
 
     mutateElement(element, resizedElement);
-    if (boundTextElement && boundTextFont) {
+    if (boundTextElement && boundTextFontSize != null) {
-      mutateElement(boundTextElement, { fontSize: boundTextFont.fontSize });
+      mutateElement(boundTextElement, {
+        fontSize: boundTextFontSize,
+      });
     }
     handleBindTextResize(element, transformHandleDirection);
   }
@@ -694,7 +699,7 @@ const resizeMultipleElements = (
       const fontSize = measureFontSizeFromWidth(
         boundTextElement ?? (element.orig as ExcalidrawTextElement),
         boundTextElement
-          ? getMaxContainerWidth(updatedElement)
+          ? getBoundTextMaxWidth(updatedElement)
           : updatedElement.width,
       );
 

src/element/textElement.test.ts

@@ -1,190 +1,11 @@
-import { BOUND_TEXT_PADDING } from "../constants";
 import { API } from "../tests/helpers/api";
 import {
   computeContainerDimensionForBoundText,
   getContainerCoords,
-  getMaxContainerWidth,
+  getBoundTextMaxWidth,
-  getMaxContainerHeight,
+  getBoundTextMaxHeight,
-  wrapText,
 } from "./textElement";
-import { FontString } from "./types";
+import { ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer } from "./types";
-
-describe("Test wrapText", () => {
-  const font = "20px Cascadia, width: Segoe UI Emoji" as FontString;
-
-  it("shouldn't add new lines for trailing spaces", () => {
-    const text = "Hello whats up     ";
-    const maxWidth = 200 - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2;
-    const res = wrapText(text, font, maxWidth);
-    expect(res).toBe(text);
-  });
-
-  it("should work with emojis", () => {
-    const text = "😀";
-    const maxWidth = 1;
-    const res = wrapText(text, font, maxWidth);
-    expect(res).toBe("😀");
-  });
-
-  it("should show the text correctly when max width reached", () => {
-    const text = "Hello😀";
-    const maxWidth = 10;
-    const res = wrapText(text, font, maxWidth);
-    expect(res).toBe("H\ne\nl\nl\no\n😀");
-  });
-
-  describe("When text doesn't contain new lines", () => {
-    const text = "Hello whats up";
-
-    [
-      {
-        desc: "break all words when width of each word is less than container width",
-        width: 80,
-        res: `Hello 
-whats 
-up`,
-      },
-      {
-        desc: "break all characters when width of each character is less than container width",
-        width: 25,
-        res: `H
-e
-l
-l
-o
-w
-h
-a
-t
-s
-u
-p`,
-      },
-      {
-        desc: "break words as per the width",
-
-        width: 140,
-        res: `Hello whats 
-up`,
-      },
-      {
-        desc: "fit the container",
-
-        width: 250,
-        res: "Hello whats up",
-      },
-      {
-        desc: "should push the word if its equal to max width",
-        width: 60,
-        res: `Hello
-whats
-up`,
-      },
-    ].forEach((data) => {
-      it(`should ${data.desc}`, () => {
-        const res = wrapText(text, font, data.width - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2);
-        expect(res).toEqual(data.res);
-      });
-    });
-  });
-
-  describe("When text contain new lines", () => {
-    const text = `Hello
-whats up`;
-    [
-      {
-        desc: "break all words when width of each word is less than container width",
-        width: 80,
-        res: `Hello
-whats 
-up`,
-      },
-      {
-        desc: "break all characters when width of each character is less than container width",
-        width: 25,
-        res: `H
-e
-l
-l
-o
-w
-h
-a
-t
-s
-u
-p`,
-      },
-      {
-        desc: "break words as per the width",
-
-        width: 150,
-        res: `Hello
-whats up`,
-      },
-      {
-        desc: "fit the container",
-
-        width: 250,
-        res: `Hello
-whats up`,
-      },
-    ].forEach((data) => {
-      it(`should respect new lines and ${data.desc}`, () => {
-        const res = wrapText(text, font, data.width - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2);
-        expect(res).toEqual(data.res);
-      });
-    });
-  });
-
-  describe("When text is long", () => {
-    const text = `hellolongtextthisiswhatsupwithyouIamtypingggggandtypinggg break it now`;
-    [
-      {
-        desc: "fit characters of long string as per container width",
-        width: 170,
-        res: `hellolongtextth
-isiswhatsupwith
-youIamtypingggg
-gandtypinggg 
-break it now`,
-      },
-
-      {
-        desc: "fit characters of long string as per container width and break words as per the width",
-
-        width: 130,
-        res: `hellolongte
-xtthisiswha
-tsupwithyou
-Iamtypinggg
-ggandtyping
-gg break it
-now`,
-      },
-      {
-        desc: "fit the long text when container width is greater than text length and move the rest to next line",
-
-        width: 600,
-        res: `hellolongtextthisiswhatsupwithyouIamtypingggggandtypinggg 
-break it now`,
-      },
-    ].forEach((data) => {
-      it(`should ${data.desc}`, () => {
-        const res = wrapText(text, font, data.width - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2);
-        expect(res).toEqual(data.res);
-      });
-    });
-  });
-
-  it("should wrap the text correctly when word length is exactly equal to max width", () => {
-    const text = "Hello Excalidraw";
-    // Length of "Excalidraw" is 100 and exacty equal to max width
-    const res = wrapText(text, font, 100);
-    expect(res).toEqual(`Hello 
-Excalidraw`);
-  });
-});
 
 describe("Test measureText", () => {
   describe("Test getContainerCoords", () => {
@@ -261,7 +82,7 @@ describe("Test measureText", () => {
     });
   });
 
-  describe("Test getMaxContainerWidth", () => {
+  describe("Test getBoundTextMaxWidth", () => {
     const params = {
       width: 178,
       height: 194,
@@ -269,39 +90,84 @@ describe("Test measureText", () => {
 
     it("should return max width when container is rectangle", () => {
       const container = API.createElement({ type: "rectangle", ...params });
-      expect(getMaxContainerWidth(container)).toBe(168);
+      expect(getBoundTextMaxWidth(container)).toBe(168);
     });
 
     it("should return max width when container is ellipse", () => {
       const container = API.createElement({ type: "ellipse", ...params });
-      expect(getMaxContainerWidth(container)).toBe(116);
+      expect(getBoundTextMaxWidth(container)).toBe(116);
     });
 
     it("should return max width when container is diamond", () => {
       const container = API.createElement({ type: "diamond", ...params });
-      expect(getMaxContainerWidth(container)).toBe(79);
+      expect(getBoundTextMaxWidth(container)).toBe(79);
+    });
+
+    it("should return max width when container is arrow", () => {
+      const container = API.createElement({
+        type: "arrow",
+        ...params,
+      });
+      expect(getBoundTextMaxWidth(container)).toBe(220);
     });
   });
 
-  describe("Test getMaxContainerHeight", () => {
+  describe("Test getBoundTextMaxHeight", () => {
     const params = {
       width: 178,
       height: 194,
+      id: "container-id",
     };
 
+    const boundTextElement = API.createElement({
+      type: "text",
+      id: "text-id",
+      x: 560.51171875,
+      y: 202.033203125,
+      width: 154,
+      height: 175,
+      fontSize: 20,
+      fontFamily: 1,
+      text: "Excalidraw is a\nvirtual \nopensource \nwhiteboard for \nsketching \nhand-drawn like\ndiagrams",
+      textAlign: "center",
+      verticalAlign: "middle",
+      containerId: params.id,
+    }) as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer;
+
     it("should return max height when container is rectangle", () => {
       const container = API.createElement({ type: "rectangle", ...params });
-      expect(getMaxContainerHeight(container)).toBe(184);
+      expect(getBoundTextMaxHeight(container, boundTextElement)).toBe(184);
     });
 
     it("should return max height when container is ellipse", () => {
       const container = API.createElement({ type: "ellipse", ...params });
-      expect(getMaxContainerHeight(container)).toBe(127);
+      expect(getBoundTextMaxHeight(container, boundTextElement)).toBe(127);
     });
 
     it("should return max height when container is diamond", () => {
       const container = API.createElement({ type: "diamond", ...params });
-      expect(getMaxContainerHeight(container)).toBe(87);
+      expect(getBoundTextMaxHeight(container, boundTextElement)).toBe(87);
+    });
+
+    it("should return max height when container is arrow", () => {
+      const container = API.createElement({
+        type: "arrow",
+        ...params,
+      });
+      expect(getBoundTextMaxHeight(container, boundTextElement)).toBe(194);
+    });
+
+    it("should return max height when container is arrow and height is less than threshold", () => {
+      const container = API.createElement({
+        type: "arrow",
+        ...params,
+        height: 70,
+        boundElements: [{ type: "text", id: "text-id" }],
+      });
+
+      expect(getBoundTextMaxHeight(container, boundTextElement)).toBe(
+        boundTextElement.height,
+      );
     });
   });
 });

src/element/textElement.ts

@@ -1,20 +1,13 @@
-import { getFontString, arrayToMap, isTestEnv } from "../utils";
+import { getFontString, arrayToMap } from "../utils";
 import {
   ExcalidrawElement,
   ExcalidrawTextContainer,
   ExcalidrawTextElement,
   ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer,
-  FontString,
   NonDeletedExcalidrawElement,
 } from "./types";
 import { mutateElement } from "./mutateElement";
-import {
+import { BOUND_TEXT_PADDING, TEXT_ALIGN, VERTICAL_ALIGN } from "../constants";
-  BOUND_TEXT_PADDING,
-  DEFAULT_FONT_FAMILY,
-  DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE,
-  TEXT_ALIGN,
-  VERTICAL_ALIGN,
-} from "../constants";
 import { MaybeTransformHandleType } from "./transformHandles";
 import Scene from "../scene/Scene";
 import { isTextElement } from ".";
@@ -30,6 +23,7 @@ import {
   updateOriginalContainerCache,
 } from "./textWysiwyg";
 import { ExtractSetType } from "../utility-types";
+import { measureText, wrapText } from "./textMeasurements";
 
 export const normalizeText = (text: string) => {
   return (
@@ -46,7 +40,6 @@ export const redrawTextBoundingBox = (
   container: ExcalidrawElement | null,
 ) => {
   let maxWidth = undefined;
-
   const boundTextUpdates = {
     x: textElement.x,
     y: textElement.y,
@@ -55,54 +48,48 @@ export const redrawTextBoundingBox = (
     height: textElement.height,
   };
 
-  boundTextUpdates.text = textElement.text;
-
   if (container) {
-    maxWidth = getMaxContainerWidth(container);
+    maxWidth = getBoundTextMaxWidth(container);
     boundTextUpdates.text = wrapText(
       textElement.originalText,
       getFontString(textElement),
       maxWidth,
     );
   }
+
   const metrics = measureText(
     boundTextUpdates.text,
     getFontString(textElement),
+    textElement.lineHeight,
   );
 
   boundTextUpdates.width = metrics.width;
   boundTextUpdates.height = metrics.height;
 
   if (container) {
-    if (isArrowElement(container)) {
+    const containerDims = getContainerDims(container);
-      const centerX = textElement.x + textElement.width / 2;
+    const maxContainerHeight = getBoundTextMaxHeight(
-      const centerY = textElement.y + textElement.height / 2;
+      container,
-      const diffWidth = metrics.width - textElement.width;
+      textElement as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer,
-      const diffHeight = metrics.height - textElement.height;
+    );
-      boundTextUpdates.x = centerY - (textElement.height + diffHeight) / 2;
+    let nextHeight = containerDims.height;
-      boundTextUpdates.y = centerX - (textElement.width + diffWidth) / 2;
-    } else {
-      const containerDims = getContainerDims(container);
-      let maxContainerHeight = getMaxContainerHeight(container);
 
-      let nextHeight = containerDims.height;
+    if (metrics.height > maxContainerHeight) {
-      if (metrics.height > maxContainerHeight) {
+      nextHeight = computeContainerDimensionForBoundText(
-        nextHeight = computeContainerDimensionForBoundText(
+        metrics.height,
-          metrics.height,
+        container.type,
-          container.type,
+      );
-        );
+      mutateElement(container, { height: nextHeight });
-        mutateElement(container, { height: nextHeight });
+      updateOriginalContainerCache(container.id, nextHeight);
-        maxContainerHeight = getMaxContainerHeight(container);
-        updateOriginalContainerCache(container.id, nextHeight);
-      }
-      const updatedTextElement = {
-        ...textElement,
-        ...boundTextUpdates,
-      } as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer;
-      const { x, y } = computeBoundTextPosition(container, updatedTextElement);
-      boundTextUpdates.x = x;
-      boundTextUpdates.y = y;
     }
+
+    const updatedTextElement = {
+      ...textElement,
+      ...boundTextUpdates,
+    } as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer;
+    const { x, y } = computeBoundTextPosition(container, updatedTextElement);
+    boundTextUpdates.x = x;
+    boundTextUpdates.y = y;
   }
 
   mutateElement(textElement, boundTextUpdates);
@@ -174,8 +161,11 @@ export const handleBindTextResize = (
     let nextHeight = textElement.height;
     let nextWidth = textElement.width;
     const containerDims = getContainerDims(container);
-    const maxWidth = getMaxContainerWidth(container);
+    const maxWidth = getBoundTextMaxWidth(container);
-    const maxHeight = getMaxContainerHeight(container);
+    const maxHeight = getBoundTextMaxHeight(
+      container,
+      textElement as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer,
+    );
     let containerHeight = containerDims.height;
     if (transformHandleType !== "n" && transformHandleType !== "s") {
       if (text) {
@@ -185,7 +175,11 @@ export const handleBindTextResize = (
           maxWidth,
         );
       }
-      const dimensions = measureText(text, getFontString(textElement));
+      const dimensions = measureText(
+        text,
+        getFontString(textElement),
+        textElement.lineHeight,
+      );
       nextHeight = dimensions.height;
       nextWidth = dimensions.width;
     }
@@ -229,16 +223,22 @@ export const handleBindTextResize = (
   }
 };
 
-const computeBoundTextPosition = (
+export const computeBoundTextPosition = (
   container: ExcalidrawElement,
   boundTextElement: ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer,
 ) => {
   const containerCoords = getContainerCoords(container);
-  const maxContainerHeight = getMaxContainerHeight(container);
+  const maxContainerHeight = getBoundTextMaxHeight(container, boundTextElement);
-  const maxContainerWidth = getMaxContainerWidth(container);
+  const maxContainerWidth = getBoundTextMaxWidth(container);
 
   let x;
   let y;
+  if (isArrowElement(container)) {
+    return LinearElementEditor.getBoundTextElementPosition(
+      container,
+      boundTextElement,
+    );
+  }
   if (boundTextElement.verticalAlign === VERTICAL_ALIGN.TOP) {
     y = containerCoords.y;
   } else if (boundTextElement.verticalAlign === VERTICAL_ALIGN.BOTTOM) {
@@ -259,266 +259,6 @@ const computeBoundTextPosition = (
   return { x, y };
 };
 
-// https://github.com/grassator/canvas-text-editor/blob/master/lib/FontMetrics.js
-
-export const measureText = (text: string, font: FontString) => {
-  text = text
-    .split("\n")
-    // replace empty lines with single space because leading/trailing empty
-    // lines would be stripped from computation
-    .map((x) => x || " ")
-    .join("\n");
-
-  const height = getTextHeight(text, font);
-  const width = getTextWidth(text, font);
-
-  return { width, height };
-};
-
-const DUMMY_TEXT = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789".toLocaleUpperCase();
-const cacheApproxLineHeight: { [key: FontString]: number } = {};
-
-export const getApproxLineHeight = (font: FontString) => {
-  if (cacheApproxLineHeight[font]) {
-    return cacheApproxLineHeight[font];
-  }
-  const fontSize = parseInt(font);
-
-  // Calculate line height relative to font size
-  cacheApproxLineHeight[font] = fontSize * 1.2;
-  return cacheApproxLineHeight[font];
-};
-
-let canvas: HTMLCanvasElement | undefined;
-
-const getLineWidth = (text: string, font: FontString) => {
-  if (!canvas) {
-    canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
-  }
-  const canvas2dContext = canvas.getContext("2d")!;
-  canvas2dContext.font = font;
-  const width = canvas2dContext.measureText(text).width;
-
-  // since in test env the canvas measureText algo
-  // doesn't measure text and instead just returns number of
-  // characters hence we assume that each letteris 10px
-  if (isTestEnv()) {
-    return width * 10;
-  }
-  return width;
-};
-
-export const getTextWidth = (text: string, font: FontString) => {
-  const lines = text.replace(/\r\n?/g, "\n").split("\n");
-  let width = 0;
-  lines.forEach((line) => {
-    width = Math.max(width, getLineWidth(line, font));
-  });
-  return width;
-};
-
-export const getTextHeight = (text: string, font: FontString) => {
-  const lines = text.replace(/\r\n?/g, "\n").split("\n");
-  const lineHeight = getApproxLineHeight(font);
-  return lineHeight * lines.length;
-};
-
-export const wrapText = (text: string, font: FontString, maxWidth: number) => {
-  const lines: Array<string> = [];
-  const originalLines = text.split("\n");
-  const spaceWidth = getLineWidth(" ", font);
-
-  let currentLine = "";
-  let currentLineWidthTillNow = 0;
-
-  const push = (str: string) => {
-    if (str.trim()) {
-      lines.push(str);
-    }
-  };
-
-  const resetParams = () => {
-    currentLine = "";
-    currentLineWidthTillNow = 0;
-  };
-
-  originalLines.forEach((originalLine) => {
-    const currentLineWidth = getTextWidth(originalLine, font);
-
-    //Push the line if its <= maxWidth
-    if (currentLineWidth <= maxWidth) {
-      lines.push(originalLine);
-      return; // continue
-    }
-    const words = originalLine.split(" ");
-
-    resetParams();
-
-    let index = 0;
-
-    while (index < words.length) {
-      const currentWordWidth = getLineWidth(words[index], font);
-
-      // This will only happen when single word takes entire width
-      if (currentWordWidth === maxWidth) {
-        push(words[index]);
-        index++;
-      }
-
-      // Start breaking longer words exceeding max width
-      else if (currentWordWidth > maxWidth) {
-        // push current line since the current word exceeds the max width
-        // so will be appended in next line
-        push(currentLine);
-
-        resetParams();
-
-        while (words[index].length > 0) {
-          const currentChar = String.fromCodePoint(
-            words[index].codePointAt(0)!,
-          );
-          const width = charWidth.calculate(currentChar, font);
-          currentLineWidthTillNow += width;
-          words[index] = words[index].slice(currentChar.length);
-
-          if (currentLineWidthTillNow >= maxWidth) {
-            push(currentLine);
-            currentLine = currentChar;
-            currentLineWidthTillNow = width;
-          } else {
-            currentLine += currentChar;
-          }
-        }
-
-        // push current line if appending space exceeds max width
-        if (currentLineWidthTillNow + spaceWidth >= maxWidth) {
-          push(currentLine);
-          resetParams();
-        } else {
-          // space needs to be appended before next word
-          // as currentLine contains chars which couldn't be appended
-          // to previous line
-          currentLine += " ";
-          currentLineWidthTillNow += spaceWidth;
-        }
-        index++;
-      } else {
-        // Start appending words in a line till max width reached
-        while (currentLineWidthTillNow < maxWidth && index < words.length) {
-          const word = words[index];
-          currentLineWidthTillNow = getLineWidth(currentLine + word, font);
-
-          if (currentLineWidthTillNow > maxWidth) {
-            push(currentLine);
-            resetParams();
-
-            break;
-          }
-          index++;
-          currentLine += `${word} `;
-
-          // Push the word if appending space exceeds max width
-          if (currentLineWidthTillNow + spaceWidth >= maxWidth) {
-            const word = currentLine.slice(0, -1);
-            push(word);
-            resetParams();
-            break;
-          }
-        }
-      }
-    }
-    if (currentLine.slice(-1) === " ") {
-      // only remove last trailing space which we have added when joining words
-      currentLine = currentLine.slice(0, -1);
-      push(currentLine);
-    }
-  });
-  return lines.join("\n");
-};
-
-export const charWidth = (() => {
-  const cachedCharWidth: { [key: FontString]: Array<number> } = {};
-
-  const calculate = (char: string, font: FontString) => {
-    const ascii = char.charCodeAt(0);
-    if (!cachedCharWidth[font]) {
-      cachedCharWidth[font] = [];
-    }
-    if (!cachedCharWidth[font][ascii]) {
-      const width = getLineWidth(char, font);
-      cachedCharWidth[font][ascii] = width;
-    }
-
-    return cachedCharWidth[font][ascii];
-  };
-
-  const getCache = (font: FontString) => {
-    return cachedCharWidth[font];
-  };
-  return {
-    calculate,
-    getCache,
-  };
-})();
-
-export const getApproxMinLineWidth = (font: FontString) => {
-  const maxCharWidth = getMaxCharWidth(font);
-  if (maxCharWidth === 0) {
-    return (
-      measureText(DUMMY_TEXT.split("").join("\n"), font).width +
-      BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2
-    );
-  }
-  return maxCharWidth + BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2;
-};
-
-export const getApproxMinLineHeight = (font: FontString) => {
-  return getApproxLineHeight(font) + BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2;
-};
-
-export const getMinCharWidth = (font: FontString) => {
-  const cache = charWidth.getCache(font);
-  if (!cache) {
-    return 0;
-  }
-  const cacheWithOutEmpty = cache.filter((val) => val !== undefined);
-
-  return Math.min(...cacheWithOutEmpty);
-};
-
-export const getMaxCharWidth = (font: FontString) => {
-  const cache = charWidth.getCache(font);
-  if (!cache) {
-    return 0;
-  }
-  const cacheWithOutEmpty = cache.filter((val) => val !== undefined);
-  return Math.max(...cacheWithOutEmpty);
-};
-
-export const getApproxCharsToFitInWidth = (font: FontString, width: number) => {
-  // Generally lower case is used so converting to lower case
-  const dummyText = DUMMY_TEXT.toLocaleLowerCase();
-  const batchLength = 6;
-  let index = 0;
-  let widthTillNow = 0;
-  let str = "";
-  while (widthTillNow <= width) {
-    const batch = dummyText.substr(index, index + batchLength);
-    str += batch;
-    widthTillNow += getLineWidth(str, font);
-    if (index === dummyText.length - 1) {
-      index = 0;
-    }
-    index = index + batchLength;
-  }
-
-  while (widthTillNow > width) {
-    str = str.substr(0, str.length - 1);
-    widthTillNow = getLineWidth(str, font);
-  }
-  return str.length;
-};
-
 export const getBoundTextElementId = (container: ExcalidrawElement | null) => {
   return container?.boundElements?.length
     ? container?.boundElements?.filter((ele) => ele.type === "text")[0]?.id ||
@@ -644,18 +384,6 @@ export const getBoundTextElementOffset = (
   return BOUND_TEXT_PADDING;
 };
 
-export const getBoundTextElementPosition = (
-  container: ExcalidrawElement,
-  boundTextElement: ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer,
-) => {
-  if (isArrowElement(container)) {
-    return LinearElementEditor.getBoundTextElementPosition(
-      container,
-      boundTextElement,
-    );
-  }
-};
-
 export const shouldAllowVerticalAlign = (
   selectedElements: NonDeletedExcalidrawElement[],
 ) => {
@@ -756,18 +484,10 @@ export const computeContainerDimensionForBoundText = (
   return dimension + padding;
 };
 
-export const getMaxContainerWidth = (container: ExcalidrawElement) => {
+export const getBoundTextMaxWidth = (container: ExcalidrawElement) => {
   const width = getContainerDims(container).width;
   if (isArrowElement(container)) {
-    const containerWidth = width - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 8 * 2;
+    return width - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 8 * 2;
-    if (containerWidth <= 0) {
-      const boundText = getBoundTextElement(container);
-      if (boundText) {
-        return boundText.width;
-      }
-      return BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 8 * 2;
-    }
-    return containerWidth;
   }
 
   if (container.type === "ellipse") {
@@ -784,16 +504,15 @@ export const getMaxContainerWidth = (container: ExcalidrawElement) => {
   return width - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2;
 };
 
-export const getMaxContainerHeight = (container: ExcalidrawElement) => {
+export const getBoundTextMaxHeight = (
+  container: ExcalidrawElement,
+  boundTextElement: ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer,
+) => {
   const height = getContainerDims(container).height;
   if (isArrowElement(container)) {
     const containerHeight = height - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 8 * 2;
     if (containerHeight <= 0) {
-      const boundText = getBoundTextElement(container);
+      return boundTextElement.height;
-      if (boundText) {
-        return boundText.height;
-      }
-      return BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 8 * 2;
     }
     return height;
   }
@@ -810,14 +529,3 @@ export const getMaxContainerHeight = (container: ExcalidrawElement) => {
   }
   return height - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2;
 };
-
-export const isMeasureTextSupported = () => {
-  const width = getTextWidth(
-    DUMMY_TEXT,
-    getFontString({
-      fontSize: DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE,
-      fontFamily: DEFAULT_FONT_FAMILY,
-    }),
-  );
-  return width > 0;
-};

src/element/textMeasurements.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+import { BOUND_TEXT_PADDING, FONT_FAMILY } from "../constants";
+import { API } from "../tests/helpers/api";
+import {
+  detectLineHeight,
+  getDefaultLineHeight,
+  getLineHeightInPx,
+  wrapText,
+} from "./textMeasurements";
+import { FontString } from "./types";
+
+describe("Test wrapText", () => {
+  const font = "20px Cascadia, width: Segoe UI Emoji" as FontString;
+
+  it("shouldn't add new lines for trailing spaces", () => {
+    const text = "Hello whats up     ";
+    const maxWidth = 200 - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2;
+    const res = wrapText(text, font, maxWidth);
+    expect(res).toBe(text);
+  });
+
+  it("should work with emojis", () => {
+    const text = "😀";
+    const maxWidth = 1;
+    const res = wrapText(text, font, maxWidth);
+    expect(res).toBe("😀");
+  });
+
+  it("should show the text correctly when max width reached", () => {
+    const text = "Hello😀";
+    const maxWidth = 10;
+    const res = wrapText(text, font, maxWidth);
+    expect(res).toBe("H\ne\nl\nl\no\n😀");
+  });
+
+  describe("When text doesn't contain new lines", () => {
+    const text = "Hello whats up";
+
+    [
+      {
+        desc: "break all words when width of each word is less than container width",
+        width: 80,
+        res: `Hello \nwhats \nup`,
+      },
+      {
+        desc: "break all characters when width of each character is less than container width",
+        width: 25,
+        res: `H
+e
+l
+l
+o
+w
+h
+a
+t
+s
+u
+p`,
+      },
+      {
+        desc: "break words as per the width",
+
+        width: 140,
+        res: `Hello whats \nup`,
+      },
+      {
+        desc: "fit the container",
+
+        width: 250,
+        res: "Hello whats up",
+      },
+      {
+        desc: "should push the word if its equal to max width",
+        width: 60,
+        res: `Hello
+whats
+up`,
+      },
+    ].forEach((data) => {
+      it(`should ${data.desc}`, () => {
+        const res = wrapText(text, font, data.width - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2);
+        expect(res).toEqual(data.res);
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("When text contain new lines", () => {
+    const text = `Hello
+whats up`;
+    [
+      {
+        desc: "break all words when width of each word is less than container width",
+        width: 80,
+        res: `Hello\nwhats \nup`,
+      },
+      {
+        desc: "break all characters when width of each character is less than container width",
+        width: 25,
+        res: `H
+e
+l
+l
+o
+w
+h
+a
+t
+s
+u
+p`,
+      },
+      {
+        desc: "break words as per the width",
+
+        width: 150,
+        res: `Hello
+whats up`,
+      },
+      {
+        desc: "fit the container",
+
+        width: 250,
+        res: `Hello
+whats up`,
+      },
+    ].forEach((data) => {
+      it(`should respect new lines and ${data.desc}`, () => {
+        const res = wrapText(text, font, data.width - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2);
+        expect(res).toEqual(data.res);
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe("When text is long", () => {
+    const text = `hellolongtextthisiswhatsupwithyouIamtypingggggandtypinggg break it now`;
+    [
+      {
+        desc: "fit characters of long string as per container width",
+        width: 170,
+        res: `hellolongtextth\nisiswhatsupwith\nyouIamtypingggg\ngandtypinggg \nbreak it now`,
+      },
+
+      {
+        desc: "fit characters of long string as per container width and break words as per the width",
+
+        width: 130,
+        res: `hellolongte
+xtthisiswha
+tsupwithyou
+Iamtypinggg
+ggandtyping
+gg break it
+now`,
+      },
+      {
+        desc: "fit the long text when container width is greater than text length and move the rest to next line",
+
+        width: 600,
+        res: `hellolongtextthisiswhatsupwithyouIamtypingggggandtypinggg \nbreak it now`,
+      },
+    ].forEach((data) => {
+      it(`should ${data.desc}`, () => {
+        const res = wrapText(text, font, data.width - BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2);
+        expect(res).toEqual(data.res);
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
+  it("should wrap the text correctly when word length is exactly equal to max width", () => {
+    const text = "Hello Excalidraw";
+    // Length of "Excalidraw" is 100 and exacty equal to max width
+    const res = wrapText(text, font, 100);
+    expect(res).toEqual(`Hello \nExcalidraw`);
+  });
+
+  it("should return the text as is if max width is invalid", () => {
+    const text = "Hello Excalidraw";
+    expect(wrapText(text, font, NaN)).toEqual(text);
+    expect(wrapText(text, font, -1)).toEqual(text);
+    expect(wrapText(text, font, Infinity)).toEqual(text);
+  });
+});
+const textElement = API.createElement({
+  type: "text",
+  text: "Excalidraw is a\nvirtual \nopensource \nwhiteboard for \nsketching \nhand-drawn like\ndiagrams",
+  fontSize: 20,
+  fontFamily: 1,
+  height: 175,
+});
+
+describe("Test detectLineHeight", () => {
+  it("should return correct line height", () => {
+    expect(detectLineHeight(textElement)).toBe(1.25);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("Test getLineHeightInPx", () => {
+  it("should return correct line height", () => {
+    expect(
+      getLineHeightInPx(textElement.fontSize, textElement.lineHeight),
+    ).toBe(25);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("Test getDefaultLineHeight", () => {
+  it("should return line height using default font family when not passed", () => {
+    //@ts-ignore
+    expect(getDefaultLineHeight()).toBe(1.25);
+  });
+  it("should return correct line height", () => {
+    expect(getDefaultLineHeight(FONT_FAMILY.Cascadia)).toBe(1.2);
+  });
+});

src/element/textMeasurements.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,339 @@
+import {
+  BOUND_TEXT_PADDING,
+  DEFAULT_FONT_FAMILY,
+  DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE,
+  FONT_FAMILY,
+} from "../constants";
+import { getFontString, isTestEnv } from "../utils";
+import { normalizeText } from "./textElement";
+import { ExcalidrawTextElement, FontFamilyValues, FontString } from "./types";
+
+const DUMMY_TEXT = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789".toLocaleUpperCase();
+
+let canvas: HTMLCanvasElement | undefined;
+
+// since in test env the canvas measureText algo
+// doesn't measure text and instead just returns number of
+// characters hence we assume that each letter is 10px
+const DUMMY_CHAR_WIDTH = 10;
+
+const getLineWidth = (text: string, font: FontString) => {
+  if (!canvas) {
+    canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
+  }
+  const canvas2dContext = canvas.getContext("2d")!;
+  canvas2dContext.font = font;
+  const width = canvas2dContext.measureText(text).width;
+
+  /* istanbul ignore else */
+  if (isTestEnv()) {
+    return width * DUMMY_CHAR_WIDTH;
+  }
+  /* istanbul ignore next */
+  return width;
+};
+
+export const getTextWidth = (text: string, font: FontString) => {
+  const lines = splitIntoLines(text);
+  let width = 0;
+  lines.forEach((line) => {
+    width = Math.max(width, getLineWidth(line, font));
+  });
+  return width;
+};
+
+export const getTextHeight = (
+  text: string,
+  fontSize: number,
+  lineHeight: ExcalidrawTextElement["lineHeight"],
+) => {
+  const lineCount = splitIntoLines(text).length;
+  return getLineHeightInPx(fontSize, lineHeight) * lineCount;
+};
+
+export const splitIntoLines = (text: string) => {
+  return normalizeText(text).split("\n");
+};
+
+export const measureText = (
+  text: string,
+  font: FontString,
+  lineHeight: ExcalidrawTextElement["lineHeight"],
+) => {
+  text = text
+    .split("\n")
+    // replace empty lines with single space because leading/trailing empty
+    // lines would be stripped from computation
+    .map((x) => x || " ")
+    .join("\n");
+  const fontSize = parseFloat(font);
+  const height = getTextHeight(text, fontSize, lineHeight);
+  const width = getTextWidth(text, font);
+
+  return { width, height };
+};
+
+export const getApproxMinContainerWidth = (
+  font: FontString,
+  lineHeight: ExcalidrawTextElement["lineHeight"],
+) => {
+  const maxCharWidth = getMaxCharWidth(font);
+  if (maxCharWidth === 0) {
+    return (
+      measureText(DUMMY_TEXT.split("").join("\n"), font, lineHeight).width +
+      BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2
+    );
+  }
+  return maxCharWidth + BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2;
+};
+
+export const getApproxMinContainerHeight = (
+  fontSize: ExcalidrawTextElement["fontSize"],
+  lineHeight: ExcalidrawTextElement["lineHeight"],
+) => {
+  return getLineHeightInPx(fontSize, lineHeight) + BOUND_TEXT_PADDING * 2;
+};
+
+export const charWidth = (() => {
+  const cachedCharWidth: { [key: FontString]: Array<number> } = {};
+
+  const calculate = (char: string, font: FontString) => {
+    const ascii = char.charCodeAt(0);
+    if (!cachedCharWidth[font]) {
+      cachedCharWidth[font] = [];
+    }
+    if (!cachedCharWidth[font][ascii]) {
+      const width = getLineWidth(char, font);
+      cachedCharWidth[font][ascii] = width;
+    }
+
+    return cachedCharWidth[font][ascii];
+  };
+
+  const getCache = (font: FontString) => {
+    return cachedCharWidth[font];
+  };
+  return {
+    calculate,
+    getCache,
+  };
+})();
+
+export const getMaxCharWidth = (font: FontString) => {
+  const cache = charWidth.getCache(font);
+  if (!cache) {
+    return 0;
+  }
+  const cacheWithOutEmpty = cache.filter((val) => val !== undefined);
+  return Math.max(...cacheWithOutEmpty);
+};
+
+/** this is not used currently but might be useful
+ * in future hence keeping it
+ */
+/* istanbul ignore next */
+export const getApproxCharsToFitInWidth = (font: FontString, width: number) => {
+  // Generally lower case is used so converting to lower case
+  const dummyText = DUMMY_TEXT.toLocaleLowerCase();
+  const batchLength = 6;
+  let index = 0;
+  let widthTillNow = 0;
+  let str = "";
+  while (widthTillNow <= width) {
+    const batch = dummyText.substr(index, index + batchLength);
+    str += batch;
+    widthTillNow += getLineWidth(str, font);
+    if (index === dummyText.length - 1) {
+      index = 0;
+    }
+    index = index + batchLength;
+  }
+
+  while (widthTillNow > width) {
+    str = str.substr(0, str.length - 1);
+    widthTillNow = getLineWidth(str, font);
+  }
+  return str.length;
+};
+
+export const wrapText = (text: string, font: FontString, maxWidth: number) => {
+  // if maxWidth is not finite or NaN which can happen in case of bugs in
+  // computation, we need to make sure we don't continue as we'll end up
+  // in an infinite loop
+  if (!Number.isFinite(maxWidth) || maxWidth < 0) {
+    return text;
+  }
+
+  const lines: Array<string> = [];
+  const originalLines = text.split("\n");
+  const spaceWidth = getLineWidth(" ", font);
+
+  let currentLine = "";
+  let currentLineWidthTillNow = 0;
+
+  const push = (str: string) => {
+    if (str.trim()) {
+      lines.push(str);
+    }
+  };
+
+  const resetParams = () => {
+    currentLine = "";
+    currentLineWidthTillNow = 0;
+  };
+
+  originalLines.forEach((originalLine) => {
+    const currentLineWidth = getTextWidth(originalLine, font);
+
+    //Push the line if its <= maxWidth
+    if (currentLineWidth <= maxWidth) {
+      lines.push(originalLine);
+      return; // continue
+    }
+    const words = originalLine.split(" ");
+
+    resetParams();
+
+    let index = 0;
+
+    while (index < words.length) {
+      const currentWordWidth = getLineWidth(words[index], font);
+
+      // This will only happen when single word takes entire width
+      if (currentWordWidth === maxWidth) {
+        push(words[index]);
+        index++;
+      }
+
+      // Start breaking longer words exceeding max width
+      else if (currentWordWidth > maxWidth) {
+        // push current line since the current word exceeds the max width
+        // so will be appended in next line
+        push(currentLine);
+
+        resetParams();
+
+        while (words[index].length > 0) {
+          const currentChar = String.fromCodePoint(
+            words[index].codePointAt(0)!,
+          );
+          const width = charWidth.calculate(currentChar, font);
+          currentLineWidthTillNow += width;
+          words[index] = words[index].slice(currentChar.length);
+
+          if (currentLineWidthTillNow >= maxWidth) {
+            push(currentLine);
+            currentLine = currentChar;
+            currentLineWidthTillNow = width;
+          } else {
+            currentLine += currentChar;
+          }
+        }
+
+        // push current line if appending space exceeds max width
+        if (currentLineWidthTillNow + spaceWidth >= maxWidth) {
+          push(currentLine);
+          resetParams();
+        } else {
+          // space needs to be appended before next word
+          // as currentLine contains chars which couldn't be appended
+          // to previous line
+          currentLine += " ";
+          currentLineWidthTillNow += spaceWidth;
+        }
+        index++;
+      } else {
+        // Start appending words in a line till max width reached
+        while (currentLineWidthTillNow < maxWidth && index < words.length) {
+          const word = words[index];
+          currentLineWidthTillNow = getLineWidth(currentLine + word, font);
+
+          if (currentLineWidthTillNow > maxWidth) {
+            push(currentLine);
+            resetParams();
+
+            break;
+          }
+          index++;
+          currentLine += `${word} `;
+
+          // Push the word if appending space exceeds max width
+          if (currentLineWidthTillNow + spaceWidth >= maxWidth) {
+            const word = currentLine.slice(0, -1);
+            push(word);
+            resetParams();
+            break;
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    if (currentLine.slice(-1) === " ") {
+      // only remove last trailing space which we have added when joining words
+      currentLine = currentLine.slice(0, -1);
+      push(currentLine);
+    }
+  });
+  return lines.join("\n");
+};
+
+export const isMeasureTextSupported = () => {
+  const width = getTextWidth(
+    DUMMY_TEXT,
+    getFontString({
+      fontSize: DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE,
+      fontFamily: DEFAULT_FONT_FAMILY,
+    }),
+  );
+  return width > 0;
+};
+
+/**
+ * We calculate the line height from the font size and the unitless line height,
+ * aligning with the W3C spec.
+ */
+export const getLineHeightInPx = (
+  fontSize: ExcalidrawTextElement["fontSize"],
+  lineHeight: ExcalidrawTextElement["lineHeight"],
+) => {
+  return fontSize * lineHeight;
+};
+
+/**
+ * To get unitless line-height (if unknown) we can calculate it by dividing
+ * height-per-line by fontSize.
+ */
+export const detectLineHeight = (textElement: ExcalidrawTextElement) => {
+  const lineCount = splitIntoLines(textElement.text).length;
+  return (textElement.height /
+    lineCount /
+    textElement.fontSize) as ExcalidrawTextElement["lineHeight"];
+};
+
+/**
+ * Unitless line height
+ *
+ * In previous versions we used `normal` line height, which browsers interpret
+ * differently, and based on font-family and font-size.
+ *
+ * To make line heights consistent across browsers we hardcode the values for
+ * each of our fonts based on most common average line-heights.
+ * See https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/pull/6360#issuecomment-1477635971
+ * where the values come from.
+ */
+const DEFAULT_LINE_HEIGHT = {
+  // ~1.25 is the average for Virgil in WebKit and Blink.
+  // Gecko (FF) uses ~1.28.
+  [FONT_FAMILY.Virgil]: 1.25 as ExcalidrawTextElement["lineHeight"],
+  // ~1.15 is the average for Helvetica in WebKit and Blink.
+  // Gecko if all over the place.
+  [FONT_FAMILY.Helvetica]: 1.15 as ExcalidrawTextElement["lineHeight"],
+  // ~1.2 is the average for Cascadia in WebKit and Blink, and kinda Gecko too
+  [FONT_FAMILY.Cascadia]: 1.2 as ExcalidrawTextElement["lineHeight"],
+};
+
+export const getDefaultLineHeight = (fontFamily: FontFamilyValues) => {
+  if (fontFamily) {
+    return DEFAULT_LINE_HEIGHT[fontFamily];
+  }
+  return DEFAULT_LINE_HEIGHT[DEFAULT_FONT_FAMILY];
+};

src/element/textWysiwyg.test.tsx

@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
         rectangle.y + h.elements[0].height / 2 - text.height / 2,
       );
       expect(text.x).toBe(25);
-      expect(text.height).toBe(48);
+      expect(text.height).toBe(50);
       expect(text.width).toBe(60);
 
       // Edit and text by removing second line and it should
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
 
       expect(text.text).toBe("Hello");
       expect(text.originalText).toBe("Hello");
-      expect(text.height).toBe(24);
+      expect(text.height).toBe(25);
       expect(text.width).toBe(50);
       expect(text.y).toBe(
         rectangle.y + h.elements[0].height / 2 - text.height / 2,
@@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
       expect([h.elements[1].x, h.elements[1].y]).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Array [
           85,
-          5,
+          4.5,
         ]
       `);
 
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
       expect([h.elements[1].x, h.elements[1].y]).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Array [
           15,
-          66,
+          65,
         ]
       `);
 
@@ -1067,9 +1067,9 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
       mouse.moveTo(rectangle.x + 100, rectangle.y + 50);
       mouse.up(rectangle.x + 100, rectangle.y + 50);
       expect(rectangle.x).toBe(80);
-      expect(rectangle.y).toBe(-35);
+      expect(rectangle.y).toBe(-40);
       expect(text.x).toBe(85);
-      expect(text.y).toBe(-30);
+      expect(text.y).toBe(-35);
 
       Keyboard.withModifierKeys({ ctrl: true }, () => {
         Keyboard.keyPress(KEYS.Z);
@@ -1112,7 +1112,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
         target: { value: "Online whiteboard collaboration made easy" },
       });
       editor.blur();
-      expect(rectangle.height).toBe(178);
+      expect(rectangle.height).toBe(185);
       mouse.select(rectangle);
       fireEvent.contextMenu(GlobalTestState.canvas, {
         button: 2,
@@ -1186,6 +1186,41 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
       );
     });
 
+    it("should update line height when font family updated", async () => {
+      Keyboard.keyPress(KEYS.ENTER);
+      expect(getOriginalContainerHeightFromCache(rectangle.id)).toBe(75);
+
+      const editor = document.querySelector(
+        ".excalidraw-textEditorContainer > textarea",
+      ) as HTMLTextAreaElement;
+
+      await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 0));
+      fireEvent.change(editor, { target: { value: "Hello World!" } });
+      editor.blur();
+      expect(
+        (h.elements[1] as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer).lineHeight,
+      ).toEqual(1.25);
+
+      mouse.select(rectangle);
+      Keyboard.keyPress(KEYS.ENTER);
+
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByTitle(/code/i));
+      expect(
+        (h.elements[1] as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer).fontFamily,
+      ).toEqual(FONT_FAMILY.Cascadia);
+      expect(
+        (h.elements[1] as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer).lineHeight,
+      ).toEqual(1.2);
+
+      fireEvent.click(screen.getByTitle(/normal/i));
+      expect(
+        (h.elements[1] as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer).fontFamily,
+      ).toEqual(FONT_FAMILY.Helvetica);
+      expect(
+        (h.elements[1] as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer).lineHeight,
+      ).toEqual(1.15);
+    });
+
     describe("should align correctly", () => {
       let editor: HTMLTextAreaElement;
 
@@ -1245,7 +1280,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
         expect([h.elements[1].x, h.elements[1].y]).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
           Array [
             15,
-            45.5,
+            45,
           ]
         `);
       });
@@ -1257,7 +1292,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
         expect([h.elements[1].x, h.elements[1].y]).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
           Array [
             30,
-            45.5,
+            45,
           ]
         `);
       });
@@ -1269,7 +1304,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
         expect([h.elements[1].x, h.elements[1].y]).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
           Array [
             45,
-            45.5,
+            45,
           ]
         `);
       });
@@ -1281,7 +1316,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
         expect([h.elements[1].x, h.elements[1].y]).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
           Array [
             15,
-            66,
+            65,
           ]
         `);
       });
@@ -1292,7 +1327,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
         expect([h.elements[1].x, h.elements[1].y]).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
           Array [
             30,
-            66,
+            65,
           ]
         `);
       });
@@ -1303,7 +1338,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
         expect([h.elements[1].x, h.elements[1].y]).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
           Array [
             45,
-            66,
+            65,
           ]
         `);
       });
@@ -1333,7 +1368,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
 
       const textElement = h.elements[1] as ExcalidrawTextElement;
       expect(textElement.width).toBe(600);
-      expect(textElement.height).toBe(24);
+      expect(textElement.height).toBe(25);
       expect(textElement.textAlign).toBe(TEXT_ALIGN.LEFT);
       expect((textElement as ExcalidrawTextElement).text).toBe(
         "Excalidraw is an opensource virtual collaborative whiteboard",
@@ -1365,7 +1400,7 @@ describe("textWysiwyg", () => {
           ],
           fillStyle: "hachure",
           groupIds: [],
-          height: 34,
+          height: 35,
           isDeleted: false,
           link: null,
           locked: false,

src/element/textWysiwyg.tsx

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import {
   isBoundToContainer,
   isTextElement,
 } from "./typeChecks";
-import { CLASSES, VERTICAL_ALIGN } from "../constants";
+import { CLASSES } from "../constants";
 import {
   ExcalidrawElement,
   ExcalidrawLinearElement,
@@ -22,19 +22,15 @@ import {
 import { AppState } from "../types";
 import { mutateElement } from "./mutateElement";
 import {
-  getApproxLineHeight,
   getBoundTextElementId,
-  getContainerCoords,
   getContainerDims,
   getContainerElement,
   getTextElementAngle,
-  getTextWidth,
-  measureText,
   normalizeText,
   redrawTextBoundingBox,
-  wrapText,
+  getBoundTextMaxHeight,
-  getMaxContainerHeight,
+  getBoundTextMaxWidth,
-  getMaxContainerWidth,
+  computeBoundTextPosition,
 } from "./textElement";
 import {
   actionDecreaseFontSize,
@@ -44,6 +40,12 @@ import { actionZoomIn, actionZoomOut } from "../actions/actionCanvas";
 import App from "../components/App";
 import { LinearElementEditor } from "./linearElementEditor";
 import { parseClipboard } from "../clipboard";
+import {
+  getTextWidth,
+  measureText,
+  wrapText,
+  getTextHeight,
+} from "./textMeasurements";
 
 const getTransform = (
   width: number,
@@ -150,9 +152,7 @@ export const textWysiwyg = ({
       return;
     }
     const { textAlign, verticalAlign } = updatedTextElement;
-    const approxLineHeight = getApproxLineHeight(
+
-      getFontString(updatedTextElement),
-    );
     if (updatedTextElement && isTextElement(updatedTextElement)) {
       let coordX = updatedTextElement.x;
       let coordY = updatedTextElement.y;
@@ -180,15 +180,12 @@ export const textWysiwyg = ({
           editable,
         );
         const containerDims = getContainerDims(container);
-        // using editor.style.height to get the accurate height of text editor
+
-        const editorHeight = Number(editable.style.height.slice(0, -2));
+        textElementHeight = getTextHeight(
-        if (editorHeight > 0) {
+          updatedTextElement.text,
-          textElementHeight = editorHeight;
+          updatedTextElement.fontSize,
-        }
+          updatedTextElement.lineHeight,
-        if (propertiesUpdated) {
+        );
-          // update height of the editor after properties updated
-          textElementHeight = updatedTextElement.height;
-        }
 
         let originalContainerData;
         if (propertiesUpdated) {
@@ -206,14 +203,17 @@ export const textWysiwyg = ({
           }
         }
 
-        maxWidth = getMaxContainerWidth(container);
+        maxWidth = getBoundTextMaxWidth(container);
-        maxHeight = getMaxContainerHeight(container);
+        maxHeight = getBoundTextMaxHeight(
+          container,
+          updatedTextElement as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer,
+        );
 
         // autogrow container height if text exceeds
         if (!isArrowElement(container) && textElementHeight > maxHeight) {
           const diff = Math.min(
             textElementHeight - maxHeight,
-            approxLineHeight,
+            element.lineHeight,
           );
           mutateElement(container, { height: containerDims.height + diff });
           return;
@@ -226,25 +226,15 @@ export const textWysiwyg = ({
         ) {
           const diff = Math.min(
             maxHeight - textElementHeight,
-            approxLineHeight,
+            element.lineHeight,
           );
           mutateElement(container, { height: containerDims.height - diff });
-        }
+        } else {
-        // Start pushing text upward until a diff of 30px (padding)
+          const { y } = computeBoundTextPosition(
-        // is reached
+            container,
-        else {
+            updatedTextElement as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer,
-          const containerCoords = getContainerCoords(container);
+          );
-
+          coordY = y;
-          // vertically center align the text
-          if (verticalAlign === VERTICAL_ALIGN.MIDDLE) {
-            if (!isArrowElement(container)) {
-              coordY =
-                containerCoords.y + maxHeight / 2 - textElementHeight / 2;
-            }
-          }
-          if (verticalAlign === VERTICAL_ALIGN.BOTTOM) {
-            coordY = containerCoords.y + (maxHeight - textElementHeight);
-          }
         }
       }
       const [viewportX, viewportY] = getViewportCoords(coordX, coordY);
@@ -266,10 +256,6 @@ export const textWysiwyg = ({
         editable.selectionEnd = editable.value.length - diff;
       }
 
-      const lines = updatedTextElement.originalText.split("\n");
-      const lineHeight = updatedTextElement.containerId
-        ? approxLineHeight
-        : updatedTextElement.height / lines.length;
       if (!container) {
         maxWidth = (appState.width - 8 - viewportX) / appState.zoom.value;
         textElementWidth = Math.min(textElementWidth, maxWidth);
@@ -282,7 +268,7 @@ export const textWysiwyg = ({
       Object.assign(editable.style, {
         font: getFontString(updatedTextElement),
         // must be defined *after* font ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
-        lineHeight: `${lineHeight}px`,
+        lineHeight: element.lineHeight,
         width: `${textElementWidth}px`,
         height: `${textElementHeight}px`,
         left: `${viewportX}px`,
@@ -369,7 +355,7 @@ export const textWysiwyg = ({
         const wrappedText = wrapText(
           `${editable.value}${data}`,
           font,
-          getMaxContainerWidth(container),
+          getBoundTextMaxWidth(container),
         );
         const width = getTextWidth(wrappedText, font);
         editable.style.width = `${width}px`;
@@ -386,9 +372,13 @@ export const textWysiwyg = ({
         const wrappedText = wrapText(
           normalizeText(editable.value),
           font,
-          getMaxContainerWidth(container!),
+          getBoundTextMaxWidth(container!),
+        );
+        const { width, height } = measureText(
+          wrappedText,
+          font,
+          updatedTextElement.lineHeight,
         );
-        const { width, height } = measureText(wrappedText, font);
         editable.style.width = `${width}px`;
         editable.style.height = `${height}px`;
       }

src/element/types.ts

@@ -135,6 +135,11 @@ export type ExcalidrawTextElement = _ExcalidrawElementBase &
     verticalAlign: VerticalAlign;
     containerId: ExcalidrawGenericElement["id"] | null;
     originalText: string;
+    /**
+     * Unitless line height (aligned to W3C). To get line height in px, multiply
+     *  with font size (using `getLineHeightInPx` helper).
+     */
+    lineHeight: number & { _brand: "unitlessLineHeight" };
   }>;
 
 export type ExcalidrawBindableElement =

src/renderer/renderElement.ts

@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ import {
 } from "../constants";
 import { getStroke, StrokeOptions } from "perfect-freehand";
 import {
-  getApproxLineHeight,
   getBoundTextElement,
   getContainerCoords,
   getContainerElement,
-  getMaxContainerHeight,
+  getBoundTextMaxHeight,
-  getMaxContainerWidth,
+  getBoundTextMaxWidth,
 } from "../element/textElement";
 import { LinearElementEditor } from "../element/linearElementEditor";
+import { getLineHeightInPx } from "../element/textMeasurements";
 
 // using a stronger invert (100% vs our regular 93%) and saturate
 // as a temp hack to make images in dark theme look closer to original
@@ -279,9 +279,6 @@ const drawElementOnCanvas = (
 
         // Canvas does not support multiline text by default
         const lines = element.text.replace(/\r\n?/g, "\n").split("\n");
-        const lineHeight = element.containerId
-          ? getApproxLineHeight(getFontString(element))
-          : element.height / lines.length;
         const horizontalOffset =
           element.textAlign === "center"
             ? element.width / 2
@@ -290,11 +287,16 @@ const drawElementOnCanvas = (
             : 0;
         context.textBaseline = "bottom";
 
+        const lineHeightPx = getLineHeightInPx(
+          element.fontSize,
+          element.lineHeight,
+        );
+
         for (let index = 0; index < lines.length; index++) {
           context.fillText(
             lines[index],
             horizontalOffset,
-            (index + 1) * lineHeight,
+            (index + 1) * lineHeightPx,
           );
         }
         context.restore();
@@ -820,14 +822,17 @@ const drawElementFromCanvas = (
       process.env.REACT_APP_DEBUG_ENABLE_TEXT_CONTAINER_BOUNDING_BOX &&
       hasBoundTextElement(element)
     ) {
+      const textElement = getBoundTextElement(
+        element,
+      ) as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer;
       const coords = getContainerCoords(element);
       context.strokeStyle = "#c92a2a";
       context.lineWidth = 3;
       context.strokeRect(
         (coords.x + renderConfig.scrollX) * window.devicePixelRatio,
         (coords.y + renderConfig.scrollY) * window.devicePixelRatio,
-        getMaxContainerWidth(element) * window.devicePixelRatio,
+        getBoundTextMaxWidth(element) * window.devicePixelRatio,
-        getMaxContainerHeight(element) * window.devicePixelRatio,
+        getBoundTextMaxHeight(element, textElement) * window.devicePixelRatio,
       );
     }
   }
@@ -1313,7 +1318,10 @@ export const renderElementToSvg = (
           }) rotate(${degree} ${cx} ${cy})`,
         );
         const lines = element.text.replace(/\r\n?/g, "\n").split("\n");
-        const lineHeight = element.height / lines.length;
+        const lineHeightPx = getLineHeightInPx(
+          element.fontSize,
+          element.lineHeight,
+        );
         const horizontalOffset =
           element.textAlign === "center"
             ? element.width / 2
@@ -1331,7 +1339,7 @@ export const renderElementToSvg = (
           const text = svgRoot.ownerDocument!.createElementNS(SVG_NS, "text");
           text.textContent = lines[i];
           text.setAttribute("x", `${horizontalOffset}`);
-          text.setAttribute("y", `${i * lineHeight}`);
+          text.setAttribute("y", `${i * lineHeightPx}`);
           text.setAttribute("font-family", getFontFamilyString(element));
           text.setAttribute("font-size", `${element.fontSize}px`);
           text.setAttribute("fill", element.strokeColor);

src/tests/__snapshots__/linearElementEditor.test.tsx.snap

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ exports[`Test Linear Elements Test bound text element should match styles for te
   class="excalidraw-wysiwyg"
   data-type="wysiwyg"
   dir="auto"
-  style="position: absolute; display: inline-block; min-height: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0; resize: none; background: transparent; overflow: hidden; z-index: var(--zIndex-wysiwyg); word-break: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: content-box; width: 10.5px; height: 24px; left: 35px; top: 8px; transform: translate(0px, 0px) scale(1) rotate(0deg); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); opacity: 1; filter: var(--theme-filter); max-height: -8px; font: Emoji 20px 20px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Virgil, Segoe UI Emoji;"
+  style="position: absolute; display: inline-block; min-height: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0; resize: none; background: transparent; overflow: hidden; z-index: var(--zIndex-wysiwyg); word-break: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; box-sizing: content-box; width: 10.5px; height: 25px; left: 35px; top: 7.5px; transform: translate(0px, 0px) scale(1) rotate(0deg); text-align: center; vertical-align: middle; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); opacity: 1; filter: var(--theme-filter); max-height: -7.5px; font: Emoji 20px 20px; line-height: 1.25; font-family: Virgil, Segoe UI Emoji;"
   tabindex="0"
   wrap="off"
 />

src/tests/binding.test.tsx

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { UI, Pointer, Keyboard } from "./helpers/ui";
 import { getTransformHandles } from "../element/transformHandles";
 import { API } from "./helpers/api";
 import { KEYS } from "../keys";
+import { actionCreateContainerFromText } from "../actions/actionBoundText";
 
 const { h } = window;
 
@@ -209,4 +210,103 @@ describe("element binding", () => {
     ).toBe(null);
     expect(arrow.endBinding?.elementId).toBe(text.id);
   });
+
+  it("should update binding when text containerized", async () => {
+    const rectangle1 = API.createElement({
+      type: "rectangle",
+      id: "rectangle1",
+      width: 100,
+      height: 100,
+      boundElements: [
+        { id: "arrow1", type: "arrow" },
+        { id: "arrow2", type: "arrow" },
+      ],
+    });
+
+    const arrow1 = API.createElement({
+      type: "arrow",
+      id: "arrow1",
+      points: [
+        [0, 0],
+        [0, -87.45777932247563],
+      ],
+      startBinding: {
+        elementId: "rectangle1",
+        focus: 0.2,
+        gap: 7,
+      },
+      endBinding: {
+        elementId: "text1",
+        focus: 0.2,
+        gap: 7,
+      },
+    });
+
+    const arrow2 = API.createElement({
+      type: "arrow",
+      id: "arrow2",
+      points: [
+        [0, 0],
+        [0, -87.45777932247563],
+      ],
+      startBinding: {
+        elementId: "text1",
+        focus: 0.2,
+        gap: 7,
+      },
+      endBinding: {
+        elementId: "rectangle1",
+        focus: 0.2,
+        gap: 7,
+      },
+    });
+
+    const text1 = API.createElement({
+      type: "text",
+      id: "text1",
+      text: "ola",
+      boundElements: [
+        { id: "arrow1", type: "arrow" },
+        { id: "arrow2", type: "arrow" },
+      ],
+    });
+
+    h.elements = [rectangle1, arrow1, arrow2, text1];
+
+    API.setSelectedElements([text1]);
+
+    expect(h.state.selectedElementIds[text1.id]).toBe(true);
+
+    h.app.actionManager.executeAction(actionCreateContainerFromText);
+
+    // new text container will be placed before the text element
+    const container = h.elements.at(-2)!;
+
+    expect(container.type).toBe("rectangle");
+    expect(container.id).not.toBe(rectangle1.id);
+
+    expect(container).toEqual(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        boundElements: expect.arrayContaining([
+          {
+            type: "text",
+            id: text1.id,
+          },
+          {
+            type: "arrow",
+            id: arrow1.id,
+          },
+          {
+            type: "arrow",
+            id: arrow2.id,
+          },
+        ]),
+      }),
+    );
+
+    expect(arrow1.startBinding?.elementId).toBe(rectangle1.id);
+    expect(arrow1.endBinding?.elementId).toBe(container.id);
+    expect(arrow2.startBinding?.elementId).toBe(container.id);
+    expect(arrow2.endBinding?.elementId).toBe(rectangle1.id);
+  });
 });

src/tests/clipboard.test.tsx

@@ -3,10 +3,13 @@ import { render, waitFor, GlobalTestState } from "./test-utils";
 import { Pointer, Keyboard } from "./helpers/ui";
 import ExcalidrawApp from "../excalidraw-app";
 import { KEYS } from "../keys";
-import { getApproxLineHeight } from "../element/textElement";
+
-import { getFontString } from "../utils";
 import { getElementBounds } from "../element";
 import { NormalizedZoomValue } from "../types";
+import {
+  getDefaultLineHeight,
+  getLineHeightInPx,
+} from "../element/textMeasurements";
 
 const { h } = window;
 
@@ -118,12 +121,10 @@ describe("paste text as single lines", () => {
 
   it("should space items correctly", async () => {
     const text = "hkhkjhki\njgkjhffjh\njgkjhffjh";
-    const lineHeight =
+    const lineHeightPx =
-      getApproxLineHeight(
+      getLineHeightInPx(
-        getFontString({
+        h.app.state.currentItemFontSize,
-          fontSize: h.app.state.currentItemFontSize,
+        getDefaultLineHeight(h.state.currentItemFontFamily),
-          fontFamily: h.app.state.currentItemFontFamily,
-        }),
       ) +
       10 / h.app.state.zoom.value;
     mouse.moveTo(100, 100);
@@ -135,19 +136,17 @@ describe("paste text as single lines", () => {
       for (let i = 1; i < h.elements.length; i++) {
         // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
         const [fx, elY] = getElementBounds(h.elements[i]);
-        expect(elY).toEqual(firstElY + lineHeight * i);
+        expect(elY).toEqual(firstElY + lineHeightPx * i);
       }
     });
   });
 
   it("should leave a space for blank new lines", async () => {
     const text = "hkhkjhki\n\njgkjhffjh";
-    const lineHeight =
+    const lineHeightPx =
-      getApproxLineHeight(
+      getLineHeightInPx(
-        getFontString({
+        h.app.state.currentItemFontSize,
-          fontSize: h.app.state.currentItemFontSize,
+        getDefaultLineHeight(h.state.currentItemFontFamily),
-          fontFamily: h.app.state.currentItemFontFamily,
-        }),
       ) +
       10 / h.app.state.zoom.value;
     mouse.moveTo(100, 100);
@@ -158,7 +157,7 @@ describe("paste text as single lines", () => {
       const [fx, firstElY] = getElementBounds(h.elements[0]);
       // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
       const [lx, lastElY] = getElementBounds(h.elements[1]);
-      expect(lastElY).toEqual(firstElY + lineHeight * 2);
+      expect(lastElY).toEqual(firstElY + lineHeightPx * 2);
     });
   });
 });
@@ -224,7 +223,7 @@ describe("Paste bound text container", () => {
       await sleep(1);
       expect(h.elements.length).toEqual(2);
       const container = h.elements[0];
-      expect(container.height).toBe(354);
+      expect(container.height).toBe(368);
       expect(container.width).toBe(166);
     });
   });
@@ -247,7 +246,7 @@ describe("Paste bound text container", () => {
       await sleep(1);
       expect(h.elements.length).toEqual(2);
       const container = h.elements[0];
-      expect(container.height).toBe(740);
+      expect(container.height).toBe(770);
       expect(container.width).toBe(166);
     });
   });

src/tests/data/__snapshots__/restore.test.ts.snap

@@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ Object {
   "height": 100,
   "id": "id-text01",
   "isDeleted": false,
+  "lineHeight": 1.25,
   "link": null,
   "locked": false,
   "opacity": 100,
@@ -312,7 +313,7 @@ Object {
   "verticalAlign": "middle",
   "width": 100,
   "x": -20,
-  "y": -8.4,
+  "y": -8.75,
 }
 `;
 
@@ -329,6 +330,7 @@ Object {
   "height": 100,
   "id": "id-text01",
   "isDeleted": false,
+  "lineHeight": 1.25,
   "link": null,
   "locked": false,
   "opacity": 100,

src/tests/helpers/api.ts

@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ export class API {
     fileId?: T extends "image" ? string : never;
     scale?: T extends "image" ? ExcalidrawImageElement["scale"] : never;
     status?: T extends "image" ? ExcalidrawImageElement["status"] : never;
+    startBinding?: T extends "arrow"
+      ? ExcalidrawLinearElement["startBinding"]
+      : never;
     endBinding?: T extends "arrow"
       ? ExcalidrawLinearElement["endBinding"]
       : never;
@@ -178,11 +181,13 @@ export class API {
         });
         break;
       case "text":
+        const fontSize = rest.fontSize ?? appState.currentItemFontSize;
+        const fontFamily = rest.fontFamily ?? appState.currentItemFontFamily;
         element = newTextElement({
           ...base,
           text: rest.text || "test",
-          fontSize: rest.fontSize ?? appState.currentItemFontSize,
+          fontSize,
-          fontFamily: rest.fontFamily ?? appState.currentItemFontFamily,
+          fontFamily,
           textAlign: rest.textAlign ?? appState.currentItemTextAlign,
           verticalAlign: rest.verticalAlign ?? DEFAULT_VERTICAL_ALIGN,
           containerId: rest.containerId ?? undefined,
@@ -221,6 +226,10 @@ export class API {
         });
         break;
     }
+    if (element.type === "arrow") {
+      element.startBinding = rest.startBinding ?? null;
+      element.endBinding = rest.endBinding ?? null;
+    }
     if (id) {
       element.id = id;
     }

src/tests/linearElementEditor.test.tsx

@@ -17,11 +17,8 @@ import { KEYS } from "../keys";
 import { LinearElementEditor } from "../element/linearElementEditor";
 import { queryByTestId, queryByText } from "@testing-library/react";
 import { resize, rotate } from "./utils";
-import {
+import { getBoundTextMaxWidth } from "../element/textElement";
-  getBoundTextElementPosition,
+import { wrapText } from "../element/textMeasurements";
-  wrapText,
-  getMaxContainerWidth,
-} from "../element/textElement";
 import * as textElementUtils from "../element/textElement";
 import { ROUNDNESS } from "../constants";
 
@@ -729,7 +726,7 @@ describe("Test Linear Elements", () => {
         type: "text",
         x: 0,
         y: 0,
-        text: wrapText(text, font, getMaxContainerWidth(container)),
+        text: wrapText(text, font, getBoundTextMaxWidth(container)),
         containerId: container.id,
         width: 30,
         height: 20,
@@ -937,8 +934,9 @@ describe("Test Linear Elements", () => {
 
       expect(container.angle).toBe(0);
       expect(textElement.angle).toBe(0);
-      expect(getBoundTextElementPosition(arrow, textElement))
+      expect(
-        .toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+        LinearElementEditor.getBoundTextElementPosition(arrow, textElement),
+      ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
           "x": 75,
           "y": 60,
@@ -964,8 +962,9 @@ describe("Test Linear Elements", () => {
       rotate(container, -35, 55);
       expect(container.angle).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`1.3988061968364685`);
       expect(textElement.angle).toBe(0);
-      expect(getBoundTextElementPosition(container, textElement))
+      expect(
-        .toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+        LinearElementEditor.getBoundTextElementPosition(container, textElement),
+      ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
           "x": 21.73926141863671,
           "y": 73.31003398390868,
@@ -1002,8 +1001,9 @@ describe("Test Linear Elements", () => {
       );
       expect(container.width).toBe(70);
       expect(container.height).toBe(50);
-      expect(getBoundTextElementPosition(container, textElement))
+      expect(
-        .toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+        LinearElementEditor.getBoundTextElementPosition(container, textElement),
+      ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
           "x": 75,
           "y": 60,
@@ -1031,16 +1031,17 @@ describe("Test Linear Elements", () => {
       expect({ width: container.width, height: container.height })
         .toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
-          "height": 128,
+          "height": 130,
           "width": 367,
         }
       `);
 
-      expect(getBoundTextElementPosition(container, textElement))
+      expect(
-        .toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+        LinearElementEditor.getBoundTextElementPosition(container, textElement),
+      ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
           "x": 272,
-          "y": 46,
+          "y": 45,
         }
       `);
       expect((h.elements[1] as ExcalidrawTextElementWithContainer).text)
@@ -1052,11 +1053,11 @@ describe("Test Linear Elements", () => {
         .toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Array [
           20,
-          36,
+          35,
           502,
-          94,
+          95,
           205.9061448421403,
-          53,
+          52.5,
         ]
       `);
     });
@@ -1070,8 +1071,9 @@ describe("Test Linear Elements", () => {
         arrow,
       );
       expect(container.width).toBe(40);
-      expect(getBoundTextElementPosition(container, textElement))
+      expect(
-        .toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+        LinearElementEditor.getBoundTextElementPosition(container, textElement),
+      ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
           "x": 25,
           "y": 10,
@@ -1090,16 +1092,17 @@ describe("Test Linear Elements", () => {
       expect({ width: container.width, height: container.height })
         .toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
-          "height": 128,
+          "height": 130,
           "width": 340,
         }
       `);
 
-      expect(getBoundTextElementPosition(container, textElement))
+      expect(
-        .toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+        LinearElementEditor.getBoundTextElementPosition(container, textElement),
+      ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
           "x": 75,
-          "y": -4,
+          "y": -5,
         }
       `);
       expect(textElement.text).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
@@ -1149,7 +1152,7 @@ describe("Test Linear Elements", () => {
       expect(rect.x).toBe(400);
       expect(rect.y).toBe(0);
       expect(
-        wrapText(textElement.originalText, font, getMaxContainerWidth(arrow)),
+        wrapText(textElement.originalText, font, getBoundTextMaxWidth(arrow)),
       ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         "Online whiteboard collaboration
         made easy"
@@ -1172,7 +1175,7 @@ describe("Test Linear Elements", () => {
         false,
       );
       expect(
-        wrapText(textElement.originalText, font, getMaxContainerWidth(arrow)),
+        wrapText(textElement.originalText, font, getBoundTextMaxWidth(arrow)),
       ).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         "Online whiteboard 
         collaboration made