Canvas

The canvas element is part of HTML5 and allows for dynamic, scriptable rendering of 2D and 3D shapes and bitmap images.

It is a low level, procedural model that updates a bitmap and does not have a built-in scene graph. It provides an empty graphic zone on which specific JavaScript APIs can draw (such as Canvas 2D or WebGL).

See also

• Canvas tutorial
• <canvas> element
• CanvasRenderingContext2D: The canvas 2D drawing API
• Canvas API
• Canvas on Wikipedia
• The Canvas 2D API specification