Question

I’m wondering if there was any way to get an input from the user, preferably to a texbox (or anywhere a user can see what he’s writting) in a canvas element through javascript.

Answer 1

Position a textbox over the top of the canvas element using absolute positioning.

my suggested layout is something like:

<div style="position:relative;width:800px;height:800px">
    <canvas width="800" height="800"></canvas>
    <input type="text" style="position:absolute;left:100px;top:300px;width:600px; etc...." />
</div>

with this you have the relative positioned <div> to base where your going to pop things up over, I would probably also add a modal backdrop…

hope this helps -ck