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CanvasRenderingContext2D.imageSmoothingQuality

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The imageSmoothingQuality property of the CanvasRenderingContext2D interface, part of the Canvas API, lets you set the quality of image smoothing.

Note: For this property to have an effect, imageSmoothingEnabled must be true.

Value

One of the followings:

"low"

Low quality.

"medium"

Medium quality.

"high"

High quality.

Examples

Setting image smoothing quality

This example uses the imageSmoothingQuality property with a scaled image.

HTML

<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>

JavaScript

const canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');

let img = new Image();
img.src = 'canvas_createpattern.png';
img.onload = function() {
  ctx.imageSmoothingQuality = 'low';
  ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, 300, 150);
};

Result

Specifications

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
imageSmoothingQuality
54
79
No
No
41
9.1
54
54
No
41
9.3
6.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D/imageSmoothingQuality