Saves the state of the current context.

Syntax

Parameters

This method has no parameters.

Return value

Type: HRESULT

If this method succeeds, it returns S_OK. Otherwise, it returns an HRESULT error code.

Standards information

• HTML Canvas 2D Context, Section 2

Remarks

The save and restore methods preserve and restore the state of a context, but not specific paths or graphics. The following attributes and states are affected:

• The current transformation matrix
• The current clipping region
• The current values of the following attributes:

  Attribute
  strokeStyle fillStyle globalAlpha lineWidth lineCap lineJoin miterLimit	shadowOffsetX shadowBlur shadowColor globalCompositeOperation font textAlign textBaseline

   

See also

CanvasRenderingContext2D

restore

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