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The [[wikipedia:Canvas element|canvas]] tag was introduced by Apple and has been [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html standardized to become part of HTML5].
The [[wikipedia:Canvas element|canvas]] tag was introduced by Apple and has been [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-canvas-element.html standardized to become part of HTML5].


To use it, you add the canvas tag to your HTML page, then use javascript draw on it.


<canvas id="canvas" showsrc>
Get the canvas tag:
function draw() {
  c = document.getElementById("canvas");
  p = c.getContext("2d");
  p.fillRect(50, 50, 150, 150);
}
</canvas>


== Loop ==
c=document.getElementById("c")


== Template ==
Get the "context" (like a paper):
 
p=c.getContext("2d");
 
Draw something!
 
p.fillRect(0, 0, 100, 100);


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== Links ==
== Links ==



Revision as of 16:55, 25 September 2012

The canvas tag was introduced by Apple and has been standardized to become part of HTML5.


Get the canvas tag:

c=document.getElementById("c")

Get the "context" (like a paper):

p=c.getContext("2d");

Draw something!

p.fillRect(0, 0, 100, 100);

Links