How to save a rendered webpage as image with JavaScript?

Question

In my app I have to provide a \'save as image\' button. I want to save the HTML rendered on my webpage as an image in JavaScript. It is a webapp and will be used in browsers

Answer 1

Your question is very incomplete. First, is that a mobile or desktop app? In both cases, the solution to your problem will strongly depend on the HTML engine that renders the pages: Webkit, Geko/Firefox, Trident/IE for example have their own method to produce the view that you want to save as an image.

Anyway, you could start looking at how this Firefox plugin works: https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/pagesaver/

It should do what you want to implement, look for its source code.

Answer 2

Check out html2canvas. A javascript framework that renders the page content on a canvas element. Saving the canvas as an image is as easy as:

var canvas = document.getElementById("mycanvas");
var img    = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
document.write('<img src="'+img+'"/>');

source

Answer 3

Using http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/

index.php

<style>.wrap{background:white;padding:0 0 16px 0;width:1500px;}.colour{width:1500px;position:relative;height:1400px;}p.footer{text-align:center;font-family:arial;line-height:1;font-size:28px;color:#333;}.wrap img{height:389px;width:389px;position:absolute;bottom:0;right:0;left:0;top:0;margin:auto;}p.invert{position:absolute;top:300px;left:0;right:0;text-align:center;display:block;font-family:arial;font-size:48px;padding:0 40px;filter:invert(0%);}p.inverted{-webkit-filter: invert(100%);filter:invert(100%);}</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/html2canvas.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.plugin.html2canvas.js"></script>
<?php // Open our CSV File
         $colours = fopen('colours.csv', 'r');

      // Reset Count
         $i=0;

      // Loop Through the Colours
         while (($colour = fgetcsv($colours)) !== FALSE){

          // Get the First Item and display some HTML
          if($i==0){ ?>
          <div id="target" class="wrap">
           <div class="colour" style="background:<?php echo $colour[0]; ?>">
            <img src="paragon2.png" alt="Image" />
            <p class="invert inverted" style="filter:invert(100%);"><?php echo $colour[1]; ?></p>
           </div>
           <p class="footer"><?php echo $colour[1]; ?></p>
          </div>
          <form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="save.php" id="myForm">
           <input type="hidden" name="img_val" id="img_val" value="" />
           <input type="hidden" name="filename" id="filename" value="<?php echo $colour[0].".png"; ?>" />
          </form>
         <?php } // Count
              $i++;
             } // Loop

      // Close the CSV File
         fclose($colours); ?>

<script type="text/javascript">
 $(window).load(function () {
  $('#target').html2canvas({
   onrendered: function (canvas) {
   $('#img_val').val(canvas.toDataURL("image/png"));
   document.getElementById("myForm").submit();
  }
 });
});
</script>

save.php

<?php // Get the base-64 string from data
         $filteredData=substr($_POST['img_val'], strpos($_POST['img_val'], ",")+1);
         $filename=$_POST['filename'];

      // Decode the string
         $unencodedData=base64_decode($filteredData);

      // Save the image
         file_put_contents("IMG2/".$filename, $unencodedData);

      // Open the CSV File
         $file = fopen('colours.csv', 'r');

       // Loop through the colours
          while (($line = fgetcsv($file)) !== FALSE) {
          // Store every line in an array
          $data[] = $line;
          }

       // Remove the first element from the stored array
          array_shift($data);

       // Write remaining lines to file
          foreach ($data as $fields){
           fputcsv($file, $fields);
          }

       // Close the File   
          fclose($file);

       // Redirect and start again!
          header( 'Location:/' ) ;  ?>