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im writing a script (or editing and hacking things together) to edit the look of images on a page. I know the basics of javascript but this is my first time looking at canvas. so bear with me
I'm getting this error:
Unable to get image data from canvas because the canvas has been tainted by cross-origin data.
so heres my code snippet throwing the error:
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas'),
context = canvas.getContext('2d'),
height = img.naturalHeight || img.offsetHeight || img.height,
width = img.naturalWidth || img.offsetWidth || img.width,
imgData;
canvas.height = height;
canvas.width = width;
context.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
console.log(context);
try {
imgData = context.getImageData(0, 0, width, height);
} catch(e) {}
now i found this post :
http://bolsterweb.com/2012/06/grabbing-image-data-external-source-canvas-element/
but i have no idea how to make it fit my needs..
I know its all due to security and all that - but is there a work around to make it all happen?
Thanks
EDIT
Oh wait.. the error is because you can't getImageData.. so is there away to make it 'local'
629
As soon as you draw into a canvas any data that was loaded from another origin without CORS approval, the canvas becomes tainted. A tainted canvas is one which is no longer considered secure, and any attempts to retrieve image data back from the canvas will cause an exception to be thrown.
By loading the canvas from cross origin domain, you are tainting the canvas. You can prevent this by setting crossorigin="anonymous" . However, CRAZILY enough, the order of the attribute on the img element does matter.
var canvas = document. createElement("canvas"); var ctx = canvas. getContext("2d"); var img = new Image(); img. crossOrigin = "anonymous"; img.
The crossorigin attribute on an <img> tag specifies that CORS is supported when loading an image from a third party server or domain.
To satisfy CORS, you can host your images on a CORS friendly site like dropbox.com
Then the security error will not be triggered if you speify image.crossOrigin="anonymous":
var image=new Image();
image.onload=function(){
}
image.crossOrigin="anonymous";
image.src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/139992952/stackoverflow/colorhouse.png";
Here is code and a Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/m1erickson/4djSr/
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="css/reset.css" /> <!-- reset css -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<style>
body{ background-color: ivory; }
#canvas{border:1px solid red;}
</style>
<script>
$(function(){
var canvas=document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx=canvas.getContext("2d");
var image=new Image();
image.onload=function(){
ctx.drawImage(image,0,0);
// desaturation colors
var imgData=ctx.getImageData(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
var data=imgData.data;
for(var i = 0; i < data.length; i += 4) {
var grayscale= 0.33*data[i]+0.5*data[i+1]+0.15*data[i+2];
data[i]=grayscale;
data[i+1]=grayscale;
data[i+2]=grayscale;
}
// write the modified image data
ctx.putImageData(imgData,0,0);
}
image.crossOrigin="anonymous";
image.src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/139992952/stackoverflow/colorhouse.png";
}); // end $(function(){});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="canvas" width=140 height=140></canvas>
</body>
</html>
I don't have enough reputation to actually add a comment (but I do have enough to respond to the question, huh??), I just wanted to add to markE's answer that I had to capitalize Anonymous.
image.crossOrigin = "Anonymous"
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