can the HTML5 Canvas element be created from the Canvas constructor

Question

I would like to be able to make Canvas elements from the constructor so that I could make a function like this.

function createCanvasContext(height,width)
{
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Answer 1

While you can do new Image() just fine, new Canvas() isn't a thing! Canvas Isn't even a thing, though HTMLCanvasElement is. Nonetheless you cannot use its constructor.

document.createElement('canvas'); is what you want. You have to use that, just like with divs.