Is there a way to rotate the existing content of HTML5 canvas by Javascript? I know it\'s possible to rotate an image that will be drawn on to canvas, but I want to rotate t
If you first want to draw on a canvas
and then rotate it for use on e.g. corners, you can to that when you "clone" the canvas or by using CSS.
Examples
Get the first canvas element:
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
draw on it:
ctx.fillStyle = 'blue';
ctx.fillRect(0,0, 25, 5);
ctx.fill();
ctx.fillStyle = 'red';
ctx.fillRect(25, 0, 25, 5);
ctx.fill();
clone it to another canvas (that is rotated by CSS):
var ctx2 = document.getElementById("canvas2").getContext("2d");
ctx2.drawImage(canvas, 0,0);
or rotate the canvas while you "clone" it:
var ctx3 = document.getElementById("canvas3").getContext("2d");
ctx3.rotate(Math.PI/2);
ctx3.translate(0,-50);
ctx3.drawImage(canvas, 0,0);
here is the CSS for rotating it:
#canvas2 {
-webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform:rotate(90deg);
-o-transform:rotate(90deg);
-ms-transform:rotate(90deg);
}
Here is the full example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
window.onload = function() {
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.fillStyle = 'blue';
ctx.fillRect(0,0, 25, 5);
ctx.fill();
ctx.fillStyle = 'red';
ctx.fillRect(25, 0, 25, 5);
ctx.fill();
var ctx2 = document.getElementById("canvas2").getContext("2d");
ctx2.drawImage(canvas, 0,0);
var ctx3 = document.getElementById("canvas3").getContext("2d");
ctx3.rotate(Math.PI/2);
ctx3.translate(0,-50);
ctx3.drawImage(canvas, 0,0);
}
</script>
<style>
#canvas2 {
-webkit-transform:rotate(90deg);
-moz-transform:rotate(90deg);
-o-transform:rotate(90deg);
-ms-transform:rotate(90deg);
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="canvas" width="50" height="50"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvas2" width="50" height="50"></canvas>
<canvas id="canvas3" width="50" height="50"></canvas>
</body>
</html>
It's pretty easy to do with a temp canvas.
Live Demo
Live Demo Animated (just for the heck of it)
The above example draws 2 boxes, then rotates and scales from 0,0 to 200,200
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas"),
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
canvas.width = canvas.height = 400;
// fill the canvas black, and draw 2 boxes
ctx.fillStyle = "#000";
ctx.fillRect(0,0,400,400);
ctx.fillStyle = "rgb(255,0,0)";
ctx.fillRect(10,10,190,190);
ctx.fillStyle = "rgb(255,255,0)";
ctx.fillRect(250,250,90,90);
// Create a temp canvas to store our data (because we need to clear the other box after rotation.
var tempCanvas = document.createElement("canvas"),
tempCtx = tempCanvas.getContext("2d");
tempCanvas.width = canvas.width;
tempCanvas.height = canvas.height;
// put our data onto the temp canvas
tempCtx.drawImage(canvas,0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);
// Append for debugging purposes, just to show what the canvas did look like before the transforms.
document.body.appendChild(tempCanvas);
// Now clear the portion to rotate.
ctx.fillStyle = "#000";
ctx.fillRect(0,0,200,200);
ctx.save();
// Translate (190/2 is half of the box we drew)
ctx.translate(190/2, 0);
// Scale
ctx.scale(0.5,0.5);
// Rotate it
ctx.rotate(45*Math.PI/180);
// Finally draw the image data from the temp canvas.
ctx.drawImage(tempCanvas,0,0,200,200,10,10,190,190);
ctx.restore();