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HTML Canvas Examples

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Try-it Yourself Examples

The examples below embeds canvas directly into the HTML code.

HTML Canvas is supported in all major browsers.

Canvas Intro

An empty canvas First drawing on canvas

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Canvas Coordinates

Draw a rectangle Draw a line Draw a circle

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Canvas Lines

Draw a line lineWidth - Set width of line strokeStyle - Set color of line lineCap - Set cap style of line

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Canvas Fill and Stroke

fillStyle - Set the fill-color strokeStyle - Set the outline color fillStyle and strokeStyle combined fillStyle and strokeStyle with alpha channel (opacity)

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Canvas Shapes

Create a shape of straight lines Create a triangle Use strokeStyle to color the shape

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Canvas Rectangles

rect() - Define a rectangle fillRect() - Draw a filled rectangle fillStyle - Fill color for rectangle strokeRect() - Draw a stroked (outlined) rectangle strokeStyle - Set color for the outline Create three rectangles with the rect() method Create three rectangles with the strokeRect() method

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Canvas clearRect()

Clear a rectangular area in a filled rectangle Clear a rectangular area inside and outside a filled rectangle Clear a rectangular area in a stroked rectangle

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Canvas Circles

Draw a full circle Draw a full circle with colors Draw a half circle Draw an arc from start-angle 0 to end-angle 0.5 * PI Draw an arc counterclockwise from start-angle 0 to end-angle 0.5 * PI

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Canvas Curves

quadraticCurveTo() - Draw a quadratic Bezier curve bezierCurveTo() - Draw a cubic Bezier curve

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Canvas Linear Gradients

Create a linear gradient with two color stops Fill an outlined rectangle with a gradient Create a linear gradient with three color stops Create a vertical linear gradient (vary the parameter values on the y-axis (change y2)) Create a diagonal linear gradient (varying both the x- and y-axis parameters) Fill circle with gradient Fill text with gradient Fill outlined text with gradient

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Canvas Radial Gradients

Create a radial gradient with two color stops Radial gradient with smaller end circle Move center point of end circle Radial gradient with three color stops

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Canvas Text

fillText() - Draw a filled text strokeText() - Draw outlined text font - Add bold and italic to font

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Canvas Text Color

fillStyle - Set the fill color of text strokeStyle - Set the otline color of text Fill text with gradient Fill outlined text with gradient

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Canvas Text Alignment

textBaseline - Set the baseline (the vertical alignment) of text textAlign - Set the horizontal alignment of text Center text both vertically and horizontally

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Canvas Shadows

shadowColor - Set shadow color for shapes shadowColor - Set shadow color for text shadowBlur - Set blur amount of shadow for shapes shadowBlur - Set blur amount of shadow for text shadowOffsetX- Set the horizontal distance of the shadow from the shape shadowOffsetY- Set the vertical distance of the shadow from the shape

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Canvas Images

drawImage(image, dx, dy) - Position an image on the canvas drawImage(image, dx, dy, dwidth, dheight) - Position an image, and specify the width and height of the image on the canvas drawImage(image, sx, sy, swidth, sheight, dx, dy, dwidth, dheight) - Clip the source image, before it is placed on the canvas

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Canvas Transformations

translate() - Move an object/element by x and y translate() - Move an object/element by x and y rotate() - Rotate a rectangle by 20 degrees rotate() - Rotate two rectangles by 20 degrees scale() - Scale element up scale() - Scale element down scale() - Scale width to 200% and height to 300% scale() - Scale with slider transform() - Multiply the current transformation with the matrix described by the arguments setTransform() - Resets the current transformation to the identity matrix, and then run a transformation described by the argument

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Canvas Clipping

clip() - Create a circular clipping region. Then draw two rectangles clip() - Create a triangle-shaped clipping region. Then draw two rectangles clip() - Create a circular clipping region. Then draw an image clip() - Create two rectangles as clipping region. Use evenodd rule clip() - Create two rectangles as clipping region. Use nonzero rule

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Canvas Compositing

globalCompositeOperation = "source-over" globalCompositeOperation = "source-out" globalCompositeOperation = "destination-over" globalCompositeOperation = "destination-atop" globalCompositeOperation = "lighter" globalCompositeOperation = "copy" globalCompositeOperation = "xor" globalCompositeOperation = "multiply" globalCompositeOperation = "screen" globalCompositeOperation = "darken" globalCompositeOperation = "lighten" globalCompositeOperation = "hue" globalCompositeOperation = "luminosity"

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