canvas

Summary

A (read-only) reference to the canvas element that the CanvasRenderingContext2D object was created for.

Property of apis/canvas/CanvasRenderingContext2D apis/canvas/CanvasRenderingContext2D

Syntax

Note: This property is read-only.

var result = CanvasRenderingContext2D.html/elements/canvas;

Return Value

Returns an object of type ObjectObject

Examples

This example gets the id of the canvas object for which the 2D context was created.

<canvas id="myCanvas" width="300" height="150" style="border:1px solid black;"></canvas>
<p>. . .</p>
<script>
var can = document.getElementById("myCanvas");
var ctxt = can.getContext("2d");
ctxt.fillStyle = "#0000ff";
ctxt.fillRect(10,10,150,75);
alert(ctxt.canvas.id); // returns "myCanvas"
</script>

Notes

You can use the canvas property to access the canvas element from functions where you passed in only the current CanvasRenderingContext2D object.

Related specifications

W3C HTML Canvas 2D Context: W3C Candidate Recommendation

Attributions

Microsoft Developer Network: Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article