HTML | canvas addColorStop() Method

The addColorStop() method is used to specify the color and its position in the gradient object.

Syntax:

gradient.addColorStop(stop, color);

Parameters:

stop: It is a value between 0.0 and 1.0 that represents the position to be hold between start and end in a gradient.
color: It is the color value to be displayed at the stop position.

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
        HTML canvas addColorStop() Method 
    </title> 
</head> 
  
<body style="text-align:left;"> 
      
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
      
    <h2>HTML canvas addColorStop() Method</h2> 
      
    <canvas id="GFG" width="500" height="200"
    style="border:2px solid" > 
    </canvas> 
      
    <script> 
        var doc_id = document.getElementById("GFG"); 
        var context = doc_id.getContext("2d"); 
  
  
// Create gradient 
var grad = context.createLinearGradient(0, 0, doc_id.width, 0); 
grad.addColorStop("0", "green"); 
grad.addColorStop("0.5", "white"); 
grad.addColorStop("1.0", "green"); 
// Fill with gradient 
context.fillStyle = grad; 
context.fillRect(100, 50, 100, 100); 
    </script> 
</body> 
  
</html>                                                                         

Output:

Supported Browsers: The browser supported by HTML canvas addColorStop() Method are listed below:

Google Chrome
Internet Explorer 9.0
Firefox
Safari
Opera

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