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zoom into html canvas

I would like show a cutting of a canvas element in another canvas element. For explanation i have the following structure:
Canvas Element which gets filled it's background by an image. On top of this image i draw a arrow and a possible path. The background-image is really big, which means that i can not get that much Information from this big image. This is the reason for point two.
I would like to show a cutting of the canvas element 1. For example like the following image:
Currently i get the coordinate of the red arrow in canvas element 1, now i would like to do something like a cutting of this section with offset like in the image.
How could i solve something like this with JavaScript / JQuery. In summary i have two canvas elements. One of them is showing a big map with a red arrow which represents the current location (this works already), but now i wanna show a second canvas element with the zoom of this section where the red arrow is. Currently i am getting the coordinates, but no idea how i could "zoom" into an canvas element.
Like some of the current answers said, i provide some code:
My HTML Code, there is the mainCanvasMap, which has a Background Image and there is the zoomCanvas, which should display a section of the mainCanvasMap!
Here is a JavaScript snippet, which renders the red arrow on the map and should provide a zoom function (where the red-arrow is located) to the zoomCanvas Element.
var canvas = {}
canvas.canvas = null;
canvas.ctx = null;
canvas.scale = 0;
var zoomCanvas = {}
zoomCanvas.canvas = null;
zoomCanvas.ctx = null;
zoomCanvas.scale = 0;
$(document).ready(function () {
canvas.canvas = document.getElementById('mainCanvasMap');
canvas.ctx = canvas.canvas.getContext('2d');
zoomCanvas.canvas = document.getElementById('zoomCanvas');
zoomCanvas.ctx = zoomCanvas.canvas.getContext('2d');
setInterval(requestTheArrowPosition, 1000);
});
function requestTheArrowPosition() {
renderArrowOnMainCanvasElement();
renderZoomCanvas();
}
function renderArrowOnMainCanvasElement(){
//ADD ARROW TO MAP AND RENDER THEM
}
function renderZoomCanvas() {
//TRY TO ADD THE ZOOM FUNCTION, I WOULD LIKE TO COPY A SECTION OF THE MAINCANVASMAP
zoomCanvas.ctx.fillRect(0, 0, zoomCanvas.canvas.width, zoomCanvas.canvas.height);
zoomCanvas.ctx.drawImage(canvas.canvas, 50, 100, 200, 100, 0, 0, 400, 200);
zoomCanvas.canvas.style.top = 100 + 10 + "px"
zoomCanvas.canvas.style.left = 100 + 10 + "px"
zoomCanvas.canvas.style.display = "block";
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<!--MY MAIN CANVAS ELEMENT, WHICH HAS A BACKGROUND IMAGE AND WHERE THE ARROW IS RENDEREED-->
<canvas id="mainCanvasMap" style="width:100%; height:100%; background: url('https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=624x10000:format=jpg/path/s7d1eecaa5cee1012/image/i4484f962de0bf3c2/version/1543751018/image.jpg') 0% 0% / 100% 100%;"></canvas>
<!-- MY ZOOM CANVAS ELEMENT, SHOULD SHOW A CUTTING OF THE MAINCANVASMAP -->
<canvas id="zoomCanvas" style="height:100%;width:100%"></canvas>
The code is only a pseudo-code, but it shows what i like to do.

Your code is using css for the canvas image, that not always looks the way we think...
I will recommend you to draw everything from scratch, here is a starting point:
canvas = document.getElementById('mainCanvasMap');
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
zoomCanvas = document.getElementById('zoomCanvas');
zoomCtx = zoomCanvas.getContext('2d');
var pos = {x:0, y:40}
image = document.getElementById('source');
image.onload = draw;
function draw() {
ctx.drawImage(image,0,0);
setInterval(drawZoom, 80);
}
function drawZoom() {
// simple animation on the x axis
x = Math.sin(pos.x++/10 % (Math.PI*2)) * 20 + 80
zoomCtx.drawImage(image, x, pos.y, 200, 100, 0, 0, 400, 200);
}
<canvas id="mainCanvasMap"></canvas>
<canvas id="zoomCanvas"></canvas>
<img id="source" src="https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=624x10000:format=jpg/path/s7d1eecaa5cee1012/image/i4484f962de0bf3c2/version/1543751018/image.jpg" style="display:none">

The height of html elements doesn't change

I have a little JavaScript / TypeScript problem.
I have a file uploader for images and when the user uploads the image, it will be printed in a canvas. I want to change the canvas height after the image upload with JavaScript / TypeScript, but it doesn't changes.
function ZeichneBildInCanvas(): void {
canvasBild.height = bild.height;
canvasBild.width = bild.width;
canvasBild.getContext("2d").drawImage(bild, 0, 0);
canvasWrapper.setAttribute("height", canvasBild.style.height);
canvasWrapper.style.height = canvasBild.style.height;
ListeMitRechtecken[aktivesRechteck].canvas.width = bild.naturalWidth;
ListeMitRechtecken[aktivesRechteck].canvas.height = bild.naturalHeight;
ListeMitRechtecken[aktivesRechteck].context.drawImage(bild, 0, 0);
}
canvasWrapper and canvasBild don't change their heights. I tried it with .style.height and setAttributes, but I don't know why its not working.
Thank you for your support.

Turning HTML content in to a canvas element [duplicate]

It would be incredibly useful to be able to temporarily convert a regular element into a canvas. For example, say I have a styled div that I want to flip. I want to dynamically create a canvas, "render" the HTMLElement into the canvas, hide the original element and animate the canvas.
Can it be done?

There is a library that try to do what you say.
See this examples and get the code
http://hertzen.com/experiments/jsfeedback/
http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/
Reads the DOM, from the html and render it to a canvas, fail on some, but in general works.

Take a look at this tutorial on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Canvas/Drawing_DOM_objects_into_a_canvas (archived)
Its key trick was:
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var data = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="200" height="200">' +
'<foreignObject width="100%" height="100%">' +
'<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" style="font-size:40px">' +
'<em>I</em> like ' +
'<span style="color:white; text-shadow:0 0 2px blue;">' +
'cheese</span>' +
'</div>' +
'</foreignObject>' +
'</svg>';
var DOMURL = window.URL || window.webkitURL || window;
var img = new Image();
var svg = new Blob([data], {type: 'image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8'});
var url = DOMURL.createObjectURL(svg);
img.onload = function () {
ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
DOMURL.revokeObjectURL(url);
}
img.src = url;
That is, it used a temporary SVG image to include the HTML content as a "foreign element", then renders said SVG image into a canvas element. There are significant restrictions on what you can include in an SVG image in this way, however. (See the "Security" section for details — basically it's a lot more limited than an iframe or AJAX due to privacy and cross-domain concerns.)

Sorry, the browser won't render HTML into a canvas.
It would be a potential security risk if you could, as HTML can include content (in particular images and iframes) from third-party sites. If canvas could turn HTML content into an image and then you read the image data, you could potentially extract privileged content from other sites.
To get a canvas from HTML, you'd have to basically write your own HTML renderer from scratch using drawImage and fillText, which is a potentially huge task. There's one such attempt here but it's a bit dodgy and a long way from complete. (It even attempts to parse the HTML/CSS from scratch, which I think is crazy! It'd be easier to start from a real DOM node with styles applied, and read the styling using getComputedStyle and relative positions of parts of it using offsetTop et al.)

You can use dom-to-image library (I'm the maintainer).
Here's how you could approach your problem:
var parent = document.getElementById('my-node-parent');
var node = document.getElementById('my-node');
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.width = node.scrollWidth;
canvas.height = node.scrollHeight;
domtoimage.toPng(node).then(function (pngDataUrl) {
var img = new Image();
img.onload = function () {
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.translate(canvas.width, 0);
context.scale(-1, 1);
context.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
parent.removeChild(node);
parent.appendChild(canvas);
};
img.src = pngDataUrl;
});
And here is jsfiddle

Building on top of the Mozdev post that natevw references I've started a small project to render HTML to canvas in Firefox, Chrome & Safari. So for example you can simply do:
rasterizeHTML.drawHTML('<span class="color: green">This is HTML</span>'
+ '<img src="local_img.png"/>', canvas);
Source code and a more extensive example is here.

No such thing, sorry.
Though the spec states:
A future version of the 2D context API may provide a way to render fragments of documents, rendered using CSS, straight to the canvas.
Which may be as close as you'll get.
A lot of people want a ctx.drawArbitraryHTML/Element kind of deal but there's nothing built in like that.
The only exception is Mozilla's exclusive drawWindow, which draws a snapshot of the contents of a DOM window into the canvas. This feature is only available for code running with Chrome ("local only") privileges. It is not allowed in normal HTML pages. So you can use it for writing FireFox extensions like this one does but that's it.

You could spare yourself the transformations, you could use CSS3 Transitions to flip <div>'s and <ol>'s and any HTML tag you want. Here are some demos with source code explain to see and learn: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/47-amazing-css3-animation-demos/

the next code can be used in 2 modes, mode 1 save the html code to a image, mode 2 save the html code to a canvas.
this code work with the library: https://github.com/tsayen/dom-to-image
*the "id_div" is the id of the element html that you want to transform.
**the "canvas_out" is the id of the div that will contain the canvas
so try this code.
:
function Guardardiv(id_div){
var mode = 2 // default 1 (save to image), mode 2 = save to canvas
console.log("Process start");
var node = document.getElementById(id_div);
// get the div that will contain the canvas
var canvas_out = document.getElementById('canvas_out');
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.width = node.scrollWidth;
canvas.height = node.scrollHeight;
domtoimage.toPng(node).then(function (pngDataUrl) {
var img = new Image();
img.onload = function () {
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
};
if (mode == 1){ // save to image
downloadURI(pngDataUrl, "salida.png");
}else if (mode == 2){ // save to canvas
img.src = pngDataUrl;
canvas_out.appendChild(img);
}
console.log("Process finish");
});
}
so, if you want to save to image just add this function:
function downloadURI(uri, name) {
var link = document.createElement("a");
link.download = name;
link.href = uri;
document.body.appendChild(link);
link.click();
}
Example of use:
<html>
<head>
</script src="/dom-to-image.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
All content that want to transform
</div>
<button onclick="Guardardiv('container');">Convert<button>
<!-- if use mode 2 -->
<div id="canvas_out"></div>
</html>
Comment if that work.
Comenten si les sirvio :)

The easiest solution to animate the DOM elements is using CSS transitions/animations but I think you already know that and you try to use canvas to do stuff CSS doesn't let you to do. What about CSS custom filters? you can transform your elements in any imaginable way if you know how to write shaders. Some other link and don't forget to check the CSS filter lab.
Note: As you can probably imagine browser support is bad.

function convert() {
dom = document.getElementById('divname');
var script,
$this = this,
options = this.options,
runH2c = function(){
try {
var canvas = window.html2canvas([ document.getElementById('divname') ], {
onrendered: function( canvas ) {
window.open(canvas.toDataURL());
}
});
} catch( e ) {
$this.h2cDone = true;
log("Error in html2canvas: " + e.message);
}
};
if ( window.html2canvas === undefined && script === undefined ) {
} else {.
// html2canvas already loaded, just run it then
runH2c();
}
}

How do I get the MIME type of an image/blob in javascript?

I'm working on a Chrome Extension in which I resize images (actually resize; not changing the browser display) that users right click on. When they right click on the image, I get access to the image's 'src'.
I can resize the images that aren't gifs fine; I'm using canvases to do this. You can see me do this here https://jsfiddle.net/cyqvacc6/6/.
img_url = 'https://i.imgur.com/SHo6Fub.jpg';
function get_image(image_url, emoji_name) {
var img_el = document.createElement('img');
img_el.onload = function () {
canvas = img_to_canvas(img_el);
emoji_sized_canvas = emoji_sized(canvas);
document.body.appendChild(emoji_sized_canvas);
};
img_el.src = image_url;
}
function img_to_canvas(img) {
canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
canvas.width = img.width;
canvas.height = img.height;
canvas_ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
canvas_ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
return canvas;
}
function emoji_sized(canvas) {
var target_dim = emoji_dimensions(canvas.width, canvas.height);
var factor = 2;
var canvas_long_side = Math.max(canvas.width, canvas.height);
var target_long_side = Math.max(target_dim.width, target_dim.height);
new_canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
new_canvas_ctx = new_canvas.getContext('2d');
if ((target_long_side === canvas_long_side)) {
// Return the image.
return canvas;
} else if (target_long_side > canvas_long_side * factor) {
// Increase the size of the image and then resize the result.
new_canvas.width = canvas.width * factor;
new_canvas.height = canvas.height * factor;
new_canvas_ctx.drawImage(canvas, 0, 0, new_canvas.width, new_canvas.height);
return emoji_sized(new_canvas);
} else if (canvas_long_side > target_long_side * factor) {
// Half the size of the image and then resize the result.
var width = new_canvas.width = canvas.width / factor;
var height = new_canvas.height = canvas.height / factor;
new_canvas_ctx.drawImage(canvas, 0, 0, new_canvas.width, new_canvas.height);
return emoji_sized(new_canvas);
} else {
// Resize the image in one shot
new_canvas.width = target_dim.width;
new_canvas.height = target_dim.height;
new_canvas_ctx.drawImage(canvas, 0, 0, new_canvas.width, new_canvas.height);
return new_canvas;
}
}
function emoji_dimensions(width, height) {
const MAX_SIDE_LENGTH = 128;
// Get the larger side
long_side = Math.max(height, width);
// Determine the scale ratio
// If the image is between 95% to 100% of the target
// emoji size, don't adjust it's size.
var scale;
if ((long_side >= 0.95 * MAX_SIDE_LENGTH) && (long_side <= MAX_SIDE_LENGTH))
{
scale = 1;
} else {
scale = MAX_SIDE_LENGTH / long_side;
}
return {
'height': height * scale,
'width': width * scale
};
}
Unfortunately, I'm not seeing an easy way to resize gifs using canvases. When I try the same approach on gifs, the 'resized' image is no longer a gif; it's just the first frame of the gif resized.
I think I'm going to end up sending gifs to a server to resize them, but still, in order to do this, I need to know whether the image I'm working on is animated or not, which I don't know how to do.
So, how do I determine if an image is a gif? Also, is it possible to resize these gifs from the client, i.e. javascript?
For reference, I need to reduce the gifs in terms of byte size and pixel, i.e. the gif needs to be both below 128px in both height and width and less than 64k in total byte size.

Since your question actually contains multiple questions, it's quite hard to answer it, so I'll currently don't include code in here.
First, Canvas API can only draw the first frame of any animated image passed through an <img> element. According to specs.
Specifically, when a CanvasImageSource object represents an animated image in an HTMLOrSVGImageElement, the user agent must use the default image of the animation (the one that the format defines is to be used when animation is not supported or is disabled), or, if there is no such image, the first frame of the animation, when rendering the image for CanvasRenderingContext2D APIs.
So you won't natively be able to render all your gif's frames on the canvas.
For this, you'll have to parse the file and extract every frames of your file.
Here are is an untested library that do propose this functionality :
libgif-js.
If you don't like libraries, you could also write a script yourself.
edit: I tried this lib and it's awfull... don't use it, maybe you could fork it, but it's really not meant to do image processing
Once you've got the frames, you can resize these with canvas, and then reencode them all in a final gif file. Untested either gif.js seems to be able to do that.
Tested too, little bit less awfull but it doesn't like transparency and it needs to have the js files hosted, so no online demo... Would also probably need a fork...
And finally, to answer the title question, "How to check the MIME type of a file", check this Q/A.
Basically, the steps are to extract the 4 first bits of your file and checking it against magic-numbers. 'image/gif' magic-numbers are 47 49 46 38.

correct canvas height and width not being passed to a function

Canvas element not being passed with correct height and width to a function, for now I fixed the problem by again assigning the height and width of the canvas after it has been passed to the accepting function. As I am new to this so I want to know if this is a problem with canvas or not?.
$(document).ready(function(){
calling_function = function(eventObj){
//some code
ajaxOptsFtn = {
url: '/xyz_data/',
dataType: 'json',
data: form_vals,
success: function(resp){
//initialisation for function.
if(resp.var_ready === true){
//dynamically adding canvas element.
var canvas_obj = $('<canvas/>').css({width:160, height:240});
$(clicked_element).children('canvas').remove();
$(clicked_element).append(canvas_obj);
//intilise other arguments with some values
var x = 30;
var y= http://abcs.com/dds.jpg;
var z = resp.apparel_img_url;
var nl = gamma_value;
var wD = 23;
var wU = 26;
acceptingFunction(canvas_obj[0],y,z,x,n,wU,wD);
}
else{
console.log('some other message');
}
},
};
if (data.var_ready) {
$.ajax(ajaxOptsFtn);
}
else{
console.log('some message');
};
};
acceptingFunction = function(canvas_obj,y,z,x,n,wU,wD){
canvas = canvas_obj;
console.log("canvas passed height and width:"+ canvas.height +","+canvas.width);
console.log("re assigning expected values");
canvas.width = 160;
canvas.height = 240;
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
//some code
AimageObj.onload = function () {
//some code
};
BimageObj.onload = function () {
//some code
};
};

You must set the size of the canvas using its attributes, not CSS - for example:
var canvas_obj = $('<canvas/>').attr({'width': 160, 'height': 240});
If you don't do this the canvas element will default to size 300 x 150 pixels which is only stretched by CSS (like an image).
And likewise you also read the same attributes/properties when you want to get the canvas' size.
I have written a blog post that explains this in details - it's too long for SO but here is the essential part:
If we don’t set any actual size for the canvas’ source bitmap it will
default to 300 x 150 pixels as per specification. If you now set the
CSS size of the element to lets say 900 x 450 pixels what happens is
that those 300 x 150 pixels are simply scaled to the new size as the
CSS applies to the element while the default 300 x 150 applies to the
source bitmap (ie. the image). The applied CSS rule doesn’t do
anything with the actual bitmap size.
It would be exactly the same if the canvas was an image, which works
in a similar fashion: it has the image element and then the source
bitmap – the image itself. If you choose to use a different size for
the element than what the image is, the image is simply stretched but
its original data stays the same. There are no more or less pixels in
the original image.

It's also very easy to do it from an HTML5 standpoint. As Simple as:
<canvas id="canvasName" width="160" height="240">
<p>Sorry, The Canvas element is not supported in this browser :(</p>
</canvas>
Adding the paragraph makes it so that a browser that doesn't support the Canvas (IE6 for example) makes this line pop up instead of the Canvas. But putting this into the HTML5 file makes it simple for drawing the Canvas which can be worked with with Javascript. Just make sure you load the Canvas before you load the Javascript, otherwise it will crash
You would then have to declare it in Javascript with
var canvas = document.getElementById("mCanvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
And you can Console.log it to make sure it is connected properly