Html5 canvas file download

Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Download a Html5 canvas element as an image with the file extension with Javascript Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 8 months ago. Active 8 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 14k times. Nicholas Murray Nicholas Murray Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Meir Meir 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. Is there any way to include background image also? Jani Hartikainen Jani Hartikainen I had thought of the creating the functionality via ajax but I was hoping for a client-side solution. Seems like only Chrome supports the download attribute - pretty cool though. Aman Virk Aman Virk 3, 8 8 gold badges 38 38 silver badges 51 51 bronze badges. Nice one, you should stick that on github.

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Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 9 years, 1 month ago. Active 3 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 99k times. I am trying to convert an HTML5 canvas to an image.

Any help? Rob 5, 5 5 gold badges 38 38 silver badges 61 61 bronze badges. Test Test Test Test 2, 8 8 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 61 61 bronze badges. What you are getting is base64 representation of that canvas to image, I think you would have to covert it to bytes and then save those bytes into an image file that you want.

You could add a simple prompt to tell the user to right click on the generated thumbnail and hit 'save target as' — boz. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Specifying a filename: As Adi said in the comments below, there is no standard way to define a filename using this method. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Nippey Nippey 4, 34 34 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. Unfortunately you cannot specify a file name this way.

Unfortunately, it did not work on Safari Version 7. Hi Moogs, unfortunately, I have no chance to test on a Mac, but I'm always curious ; Could you provide more details, like: Does the canvas render the three coloured boxes? Do you get output on the error console? Do you get a download dialogue? Anyway, Safari 7. Nippey the canvas renders the same on chrome and safari. The only difference is clicking on download link in safari does nothing, and the link disappears. No console errors.

This works for me for Chrome and Firefox. However completely fails on IE11 Nothing downloaded, no dialog shown. Show 7 more comments. You have 2 options both work on almost all browsers : 1- POST the data to the server : On the server you'd have a script that will handle the data and then tell the browser to prompt the user for download. Adi Adi 5, 6 6 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges.

You would just do this: canvas. Eric Rowell Eric Rowell 5, 22 22 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges.