The CanvasRenderingContext2D.canvas property, part of the Canvas API, is a read-only reference to the HTMLCanvasElement object that is associated with a given context. It might be null if there is no associated <canvas> element.
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CanvasRenderingContext2D: canvas property
Value
A HTMLCanvasElement object.
Examples
Given this <canvas> element:
html
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
… you can get a reference to the canvas element within the CanvasRenderingContext2D by using the canvas property:
js
const canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
const ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.canvas; // HTMLCanvasElement
Specifications
| Specification | 
|---|
| HTML Standard # dom-context-2d-canvas-dev | 
Browser compatibility
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
| canvas | 1 | 12 | 1.5 | 9 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 4.4 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 
See also
- CanvasRenderingContext2Dinterface
- Canvas API
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 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D/canvas