The HTML5 <canvas> element is the container for graphics, the place where you can draw graphics using a script. Since JavaScript seems to be the most used scripting language, in this example, we used JavaScript to draw some text inside a gradient rectangle.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<canvas width="800" height="600" id="canvas">Your browser does not support the canvas tag.</canvas>
<script>
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var c = canvas.getContext('2d');
var gradient = c.createLinearGradient(0,0,200,200);
gradient.addColorStop(0, "#F0E68C");
gradient.addColorStop(1, "crimson");
c.fillStyle = gradient;
c.fillRect(0,0,550,300);
c.fillStyle = "#fff";
c.font = "italic 30pt Arial";
c.shadowColor = "#000";
c.shadowOffsetX = 0;
c.shadowOffsetY = 0;
c.shadowBlur = 20;
c.fillText("This is a canvas example !", 50,150);
</script>
</body>
</html>
And the output will be:
The
<canvas>
tag is supported in Internet Explorer 9 (earlier versions does not support the
<canvas>
element), Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari.
{{ parent.title || parent.header.title}}
{{ parent.tldr }}
{{ parent.linkDescription }}
{{ parent.urlSource.name }}