Is there a way to have an arbitrary HTML element rendered in a canvas (and then access its buffer…).
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Is there a way to have an arbitrary HTML element rendered in a canvas (and then access its buffer…).
You won’t get real HTML rendering to
<canvas>per se currently, because canvas context does not have functions to render HTML elements.There are some emulations:
html2canvas project http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/index.html (basically a HTML renderer attempt built on Javascript + canvas)
HTML to SVG to
<canvas>might be possible depending on your use case:https://github.com/miohtama/Krusovice/blob/master/src/tools/html2svg2canvas.js
Also if you are using Firefox you can hack some extended permissions and then render a DOM window to
<canvas>https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Canvas/Drawing_Graphics_with_Canvas?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Drawing_Graphics_with_Canvas#Rendering_Web_Content_Into_A_Canvas