The canvas element is part of HTML5 and allows for dynamic, scriptable rendering of 2D and 3D shapes and bitmap images. It is a low level, procedural model that updates a bitmap and does not have a built-in scene graph. It provides an empty graphic zone on which specific JavaScript APIs can draw (such as Canvas 2D or WebGL).
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General knowledge
- Canvas on Wikipedia
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Technical information
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<canvas>element on MDN - The Canvas general documentation on MDN
CanvasRenderingContext2D: The canvas 2D drawing API- The Canvas 2D API specification