Thecanvas element is part ofHTML5 and allows for dynamic,scriptablerendering of 2D and 3D shapes andbitmap images.

It is a low level, procedural model that updates abitmap and does not have a built-inscene graph. It provides an empty graphic zone on which specificJavaScriptAPIs can draw (such as Canvas 2D orWebGL).

See also

• Canvas tutorial
• <canvas> element
• CanvasRenderingContext2D: The canvas 2D drawing API
• Canvas API
• Canvas on Wikipedia
• The Canvas 2D API specification