Canvas
Images and diagrams are a fundamental part of creating engaging websites and applications. We already know how to include images and videos in our pages, but we can also draw our own images, diagrams, and even complex visuals such as charts or game elements by using JavaScript and the Canvas API. The Canvas API allows us to draw graphics programmatically inside an HTML <canvas>
element using JavaScript. With it, we can draw paths and rectangles, and control things such as stroke and fill color, line dashes, and arc radiuses (or radii, if that's your flavor).
The process of drawing inside an HTML canvas using JavaScript can be broken down into a few distinct steps:
- Get a reference to the HTML's canvas element.
- Get a new canvas rendering context that the graphic is drawn onto.
- Set various drawing styles and options as required (for example, line width and fill color).
- Define the paths that will make up the graphics.
- "Stroke...