How to align a Rect() to the bottom right of the screen

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I’m trying to create a rect of text at the bottom right of the screen. Maybe because I’m a web developer, where stuff like this is easy I’m searching for a more sensble way. Surely there’s a way to do this relative to the bottom right corner? In CSS it would be: position:absolute; bottom:10px; right:10px; - easy right?
But in Unity I assume the way I have to do it is calculate the height of the screen, minus the box’s height, same with the screenwidth minus the box’s width. Is that really the best way?

I know doing these calculations won’t take me long, but I just wondered if there was a nicer way, like css’ position:absolute?

And is there a way to place the text inside the rect, so that it will always adapt to the width of the Rect, or do I have to do the same calculation and have it floating above?

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Rect rect = new Rect(Screen.width - width, Screen.height - height, width, height);

But depending what you are using it will be different, for instance using a GUITexture is not the same.

You would have to position the GUITexture based on the normalized screen which has a different coordinate system:

guitexture.transform.position = new Vector3 (1,0,0);

this will put it in the bottom right but it won’t show (Make sure your scale is (0,0,0)).

Rect rect = new Rect(-width, 0, width, height);
guiTexture.pixelInset = rect;

or you can leave it at position (0,0,0) ans use something like the first example.

Using a GUIText, the you have the CSS style or alignment bottom right.

So as you see it will depend on what you are after.