How to clear the canvas for redrawing

Question

After experimenting with composite operations and drawing images on the canvas I\'m now trying to remove images and compositing. How do I do this?

I need to clear th

Answer 1

Use clearRect method by passing x,y co-ordinates and height and width of canvas. ClearRect will clear whole canvas as :

canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);