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 {{Glossary("JavaScript")}} {{Glossary("API","APIs")}} can draw (such as Canvas 2D or {{Glossary("WebGL")}}).

See also

• Canvas tutorial
• {{HTMLElement("canvas")}} element
• {{domxref("CanvasRenderingContext2D")}}: The canvas 2D drawing API
• Canvas API
• Canvas on Wikipedia
• The Canvas 2D API specification