HTML | canvas Tag - GeeksforGeeks

The <canvas> tag in HTML is used to draw graphics on web page using JavaScript. It can be used to draw paths, boxes, texts, gradient and adding images. By default it does not contains border and text.

Note: <canvas> tag is new in HTML5.

Syntax:

<canvas id = "script"> Contents... <canvas>

Attributes: The canvas tag contains two attributes which are listed below:

height: This attribute is used to set the height of canvas.
width: This attribute is used to set the width of canvas.

Example 1:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>canvas Tag</title> 
    </head> 
    <body> 
          
        <!-- canvas Tag starts here -->
        <canvas id = "GeeksforGeeks" width = "200" 
            height = "100" style = "border:1px solid black"> 
        </canvas> 
        <!-- canvas Tag ends here -->
          
    </body> 
</html>                     

Output:

Example 2:

<!-- HTML code to illustrate canvas tag -->
<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>canvas Tag</title> 
    </head> 
      
    <body> 
        <canvas id = "geeks" height = "200" width = "200"
            style = "border:1px solid black"> 
        </canvas> 
          
        <script > 
            var c = document.getElementById("geeks"); 
            var cx = c.getContext("2d"); 
            cx.beginPath(); 
            cx.arc(100, 100, 90, 0, 2 * Math.PI); 
            cx.stroke(); 
        </script > 
    </body> 
</html>                     

Output:

Example 3:

<!-- HTML code to illustrate canvas tag -->
<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title>canvas Tag</title> 
    </head> 
      
    <body> 
          
        <!-- canvas tag starts here -->
        <canvas id = "geeks" width = "200" height = "200"
            style = "border:1px solid black"> 
        </canvas> 
        <!-- canvas tag ends here -->
          
        <script> 
            var c=document.getElementById("geeks"); 
            var cx = c.getContext("2d"); 
            var grd = cx.createRadialGradient(100,  
                            100, 5, 100, 100, 100); 
            grd.addColorStop(0, "red"); 
            grd.addColorStop(1, "green"); 
            cx.fillStyle = grd; 
            cx.fillRect(0, 0, 200, 200); 
        </script> 
    </body> 
</html>                     

Output:

Supported Browsers: The browser supported by <canvas> tag are listed below:

Google Chrome 4.0
Internet Explorer 9.0
Firefox 2.0
Opera 9.0
Safari 3.1

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