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window.HTMLCanvasElement

See: Web APIs - HTMLCanvasElement for more details

Also, refer the following interfaces

  1. CanvasRenderingContext2D
  2. CanvasGradient
  3. Path2D
    Since: v7.0.0

height : number

Get the height of the canvas element.

See: HTMLCanvasElement - height for more details

width : number

Get the width of the canvas element.

See: HTMLCanvasElement - width for more details

getContext(contextType)

Creates a 2D drawing context on the canvas.


Note: Only '2d' context is supported.

Returns: CanvasRenderingContext2D - A 2D rendering context (CanvasRenderingContext2D) object.
See: HTMLCanvasElement - getContext() for more details
Since: v7.0.0

ParamTypeDescription
contextType
string
A string containing the context identifier defining the drawing context associated to the canvas. Supports only '2d'.

Example

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// 1. Provide the canvas tag in your HTML document.
<sp-body id="layers">
<canvas id="canvas" height="230" width="1500"></canvas>
</sp-body>
<footer>
<!-- Button Events to invoke height, width and context of canvas -->
<sp-button id="btnPopulateLoadScript" onclick="show_height()">Canvas Height</sp-button>
<sp-button id="btnPopulateLoadScript" onclick="show_width()">Canvas Width</sp-button>
<sp-button id="btnPopulateLoadScript" onclick="getContext()">Get Context</sp-button>
</footer>
// 2. You can now get the width, height and context using JavaScript under <script> tag, as shown below.
<script>
const canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
function show_height() {
console.log("Canvas Height: "+ canvas.height);
}
function show_width() {
console.log("Canvas Width: "+ canvas.width);
}
// Function to get the canvas context and draw a triangle using lines
function getContext() {
let context = canvas.getContext("2d"); // get's the canvas context
// Draw a triangle. For more details on the below apis refer to interfaces such as CanvasRenderingContext2D, CanvasGradient. The details of the interfaces are shared as a link at the top of this documentation
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(50,50);
context.lineTo(100, 50);
context.lineTo(100, 100);
context.lineTo(50,50)
context.closePath();
context.stroke();
}
</script>
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