canvas element | canvas object
Provides an object that is used for drawing, rendering, and manipulating images and graphics on a document.
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Standards information
- HTML5 A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML, Section 4.8.10
Remarks
The canvas object, provides the surface on which to apply graphics and images. It must contain an graphic created with CanvasRenderingContext2D APIs in order to render. When the actual drawing is done using the CanvasRenderingContext2D object, the properties and methods are used to create and manipulate graphics on a canvas object.
Note The maximum size of the rendered area on a canvas is from 0,0 to 8192 x 8192 pixels, regardless of the size of the canvas. For example, a canvas is created with a width and height of 8292 pixels. A rectangular fill is then applied as "ctx.fillRect (0,0, canvas.width, canvas.height)".Only the area within the coordinates (0, 0, 8192, 8192) can be rendered, leaving a 100 pixel border on the right and bottom of the canvas.
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