CanvasGradient

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The CanvasGradient interface represents an opaque object describing a gradient. It is returned by the methods CanvasRenderingContext2D.createLinearGradient(), CanvasRenderingContext2D.createConicGradient() or CanvasRenderingContext2D.createRadialGradient().

It can be used as a fillStyle or strokeStyle.

Instance properties

As an opaque object, there is no exposed property.

Instance methods

CanvasGradient.addColorStop()

Adds a new stop, defined by an offset and a color, to the gradient.

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# canvasgradient

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
CanvasGradient
addColorStop

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Full support
Full support
See implementation notes.

See also