Capabilities of the Canvas

Canvas lets you programmatically draw onto your webpage:

• Images,
• Texts,
• Lines and Curves.

Canvas drawings can be extensively styled:

• stroke width,
• stroke color,
• shape fill color,
• opacity,
• shadowing,
• linear gradients and radial gradients,
• font face,
• font size,
• text alignment,
• text may be stroked, filled or both stroked & filled,
• image resizing,
• image cropping,
• compositing

Uses of the Canvas