Home/ Questions/Q 7811901
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-02T04:20:00+00:00

getting below error on IE8 canvas.getContext(2d) Unexpected call to method or property access.Error i

  • 0

getting below error on IE8

canvas.getContext("2d") Unexpected call to method or property access.Error

i have also add

 if (typeof G_vmlCanvasManager != 'undefined') {
                G_vmlCanvasManager.initElement(canvas);
            }

how to run canvas in IE8 with ecanvas.js.
also i have check but no luck for me on it.

thanks

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Firstly, you’re sure you’ve included the file in your markup (as per the documentation):

    <head>
<!--[if IE]><script src="PATH_TO_JS_FILE"></script><![endif]-->
</head>

    Are you definitely instantiating your “canvas” properly? If you’re doing it dynamically then:

    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
G_vmlCanvasManager.initElement(canvas);
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');

    Or if you’ve added your canvas to the page’s markup are you grabbing a reference to it:

    var canvas = document.getElementsByTagName("canvas")[0];

    Your browser doesn’t know what to do with your canvas object, so it looks like it’s not instantiated properly.

    • 0