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function convertCanvasToImage() { let canvas = document. getElementById("canvas"); let image = new Image(); image. src = canvas. toDataURL(); return image; } let pnGImage = convertCanvasToImage(); document.
The toDataURL() function returns a data: URL representing the canvas at the time that the function is called. Using this function you can transfer the canvas to your server (using jQuery for example) as a base64 encoded string and then use server-side scripting (eg PHP, ASP) to decode the string and save it to a file.
Here is some code. without any error.
var image = canvas.toDataURL("image/png").replace("image/png", "image/octet-stream"); // here is the most important part because if you dont replace you will get a DOM 18 exception.
window.location.href=image; // it will save locally
This solution allows you to change the name of the downloaded file:
HTML:
<a id="link"></a>
JAVASCRIPT:
var link = document.getElementById('link');
link.setAttribute('download', 'MintyPaper.png');
link.setAttribute('href', canvas.toDataURL("image/png").replace("image/png", "image/octet-stream"));
link.click();
You can use canvas2image to prompt for download.
I had the same issue, here's a simple example that both adds the image to the page and forces the browser to download it:
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://hongru.github.io/proj/canvas2image/canvas2image.js"></script>
<script>
function draw(){
var canvas = document.getElementById("thecanvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.fillStyle = "rgba(125, 46, 138, 0.5)";
ctx.fillRect(25,25,100,100);
ctx.fillStyle = "rgba( 0, 146, 38, 0.5)";
ctx.fillRect(58, 74, 125, 100);
}
function to_image(){
var canvas = document.getElementById("thecanvas");
document.getElementById("theimage").src = canvas.toDataURL();
Canvas2Image.saveAsPNG(canvas);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="draw()">
<canvas width=200 height=200 id="thecanvas"></canvas>
<div><button onclick="to_image()">Draw to Image</button></div>
<image id="theimage"></image>
</body>
</html>
You can try this; create a dummy HTML anchor, and download the image from there like...
// Convert canvas to image
document.getElementById('btn-download').addEventListener("click", function(e) {
var canvas = document.querySelector('#my-canvas');
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/jpeg", 1.0);
downloadImage(dataURL, 'my-canvas.jpeg');
});
// Save | Download image
function downloadImage(data, filename = 'untitled.jpeg') {
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.href = data;
a.download = filename;
document.body.appendChild(a);
a.click();
}
I created a small library that does this (along with some other handy conversions). It's called reimg, and it's really simple to use.
ReImg.fromCanvas(yourCanvasElement).toPng()
Similar to 1000Bugy's answer but simpler because you don't have to make an anchor on the fly and dispatch a click event manually (plus an IE fix).
If you make your download button an anchor you can highjack it right before the default anchor functionality is run.
So onAnchorClick you can set the anchor href to the canvas base64 image and the anchor download attribute to whatever you want to name your image.
This does not work in (the current) IE because it doesn't implement the download attribute and prevents download of data uris. But this can be fixed by using window.navigator.msSaveBlob instead.
So your anchor click event handler would be as followed (where anchor, canvas and fileName are scope lookups):
function onClickAnchor(e) {
if (window.navigator.msSaveBlob) {
window.navigator.msSaveBlob(canvas.msToBlob(), fileName);
e.preventDefault();
} else {
anchor.setAttribute('download', fileName);
anchor.setAttribute('href', canvas.toDataURL());
}
}
Here's a fiddle
This work for me: (Only google chrome)
<html>
<head>
<script>
function draw(){
var canvas = document.getElementById("thecanvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.fillStyle = "rgba(125, 46, 138, 0.5)";
ctx.fillRect(25,25,100,100);
ctx.fillStyle = "rgba( 0, 146, 38, 0.5)";
ctx.fillRect(58, 74, 125, 100);
}
function downloadImage()
{
var canvas = document.getElementById("thecanvas");
var image = canvas.toDataURL();
var aLink = document.createElement('a');
var evt = document.createEvent("HTMLEvents");
evt.initEvent("click");
aLink.download = 'image.png';
aLink.href = image;
aLink.dispatchEvent(evt);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="draw()">
<canvas width=200 height=200 id="thecanvas"></canvas>
<div><button onclick="downloadImage()">Download</button></div>
<image id="theimage"></image>
</body>
</html>
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