Use HTML5 Canvas to capture part of a web page?

Question

I know that you can capture images from an HTML5 video stream using canvas and display them on the page. What I am interested in is can you use the canvas object to create an ov

Answer 1

There is a possibility to embed your HTML in a SVG image and render that SVG into canvas. There are limitations as to what the HTML can contain (e.g. no JavaScript and no external resources so images must be encoded in data URLs). Keeping that in mind, it may do your job.

This technique is documented and demoed on MDN.