Resizing a .png image when drawing to HTML5 canvas using JavaScript

Question

I am trying to draw a few .png images to the HTML5 canvas using JavaScript. I currently have a function that will draw an image to the canvas, but the image is too large for the canvas, so only part of it displays.

The function I currently have is:

function drawImage(x, y){
            var numberImage = new Image();
            numberImage.src = imageSource;
            context.drawImage(numberImage, x, y);

        }

and I call the function by using:

var image1 = new Image();

image1.onLoad = function(){
                context.drawImage(image1, 50, 50);
                };
            image1.src="1.png";

I was just wondering if anyone knows of a way of resizing an image when it's drawn to the canvas, so that I could just a thumbnail sized image?

Thanks in advance!

I have tried adding parameters in to the drawImage function to resize the image, but this doesn't seem to have made any difference...

var image1 = new Image();

image1.onLoad = function(){
                context.drawImage(image1, 50, 50, 10, 10);
                };
            image1.src="1.png";

Answer 1

Are you using CSS to set the size of the canvas? You need to set a height and width on the element instead or everything in your canvas will be scaled "unexpectedly". This could be your problem.

See Strange HTML5 Canvas drawImage behaviour