CANVAS in HTML5 (Best Drawing Surface)

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CANVAS in HTML5 (Best Drawing Surface)

HTML5 has an Element named Canvas, it provides a Drawing Surface. This element has two attributes to specify the Dimensions :

Height
Width

Syntax

<canvas id="myCanvas" width="ABC" height="XYZ"></canvas>

An example is shown below:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="300" height="200" style="border:1px solid #000000">
Your browser does not support the HTML5 canvas element.
</canvas>
<script>
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.fillStyle = "#FF00FF";
ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 250, 100);
</script>
</body>
</html>

Then Output Will be :

HTML5 also allows us to use the CANVAS element with SVG to create a 2D drawing. We can use the CANVAS5 element with web-based Graphics Language(WebGL), which extends the capability of the JavaScript Programming language and allows it to generate interactive 3D graphics in a web browser. WebGL is managed by Consortium Khronos Group is based on OpenGL ED 2.0.