Rendering HTML elements to

Question

Is there a way to have an arbitrary HTML element rendered in a canvas (and then access its buffer...).

Answer 1

The CSS element() function may eventually help some people here, even though it's not a direct answer to the question. It allows you to use an element (and all children, including videos, cross-domain iframes, etc.) as a background image (and anywhere else that you'd normally use url(...) in your CSS code). Here's a blog post that shows what you can do with it.

It has been implemented in Firefox since 2011, and is being considered in Chromium/Chrome (don't forget to give the issue a star if you care about this functionality).