{"id":5539,"date":"2013-12-09T05:03:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=5539"},"modified":"2013-12-09T05:03:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:03:42","slug":"htmljavascript-canvas-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/htmljavascript-canvas-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML\/Javascript Canvas Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HTML\/Javascript Canvas Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

The Canvas HTML element tag can be used as the container to draw graphics on the fly usually via the use of Javascript functions for rendering and event management.<\/p>\n

In today’s tutorial we touch on a couple of the two dimensional Javascript functions to draw a rectangle or arc, but in the two dimensional context, canvas HTML elements can be used to draw text, lines, boxes and circles as well.<\/p>\n

You may want to read more at HTML Canvas Reference<\/a> as a generic reference, or here, at the tutorial javascript – How do I add a simple onClick event handler to a canvas element? – Stack Overflow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, this HTML canvas element, new to HTML5, can be very useful for some practical client-side web functionality.<\/p>\n

Link to some downloadable HTML programming code … rename to canvas.html<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

You’ll notice heavy use of the Javascript Math.random()<\/a> function.<\/p>\n

We hope you enjoy this tutorial as a live run<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes … you’ve reached the end … have a top supportive day!<\/p>\n

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