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<ol class="toc"><li><ol><li><ol><li><a href="the-canvas-element.html#the-canvas-element"><span class="secno">4.8.11 </span>The <code>canvas</code> element</a>
<ol><li><a href="the-canvas-element.html#color-spaces-and-color-correction"><span class="secno">4.8.11.1 </span>Color spaces and color correction</a></li><li><a href="the-canvas-element.html#security-with-canvas-elements"><span class="secno">4.8.11.2 </span>Security with <code>canvas</code> elements</a></li></ol></li></ol></li></ol></li></ol></div>
<h4 id="the-canvas-element"><span class="secno">4.8.11 </span>The <dfn id="canvas"><code>canvas</code></dfn> element</h4><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
<dd><a href="content-models.html#flow-content">Flow content</a>.</dd>
<dd><a href="content-models.html#phrasing-content">Phrasing content</a>.</dd>
<dd><a href="content-models.html#embedded-content">Embedded content</a>.</dd>
<dt>Contexts in which this element can be used:</dt>
<dd>Where <a href="content-models.html#embedded-content">embedded content</a> is expected.</dd>
<dt>Content model:</dt>
<dd><a href="content-models.html#transparent">Transparent</a>.</dd>
<dt>Content attributes:</dt>
<dd><a href="elements.html#global-attributes">Global attributes</a></dd>
<dd><code title="attr-canvas-width"><a href="#attr-canvas-width">width</a></code></dd>
<dd><code title="attr-canvas-height"><a href="#attr-canvas-height">height</a></code></dd>
<dt>DOM interface:</dt>
<dd>
<pre class="idl">interface <dfn id="htmlcanvaselement">HTMLCanvasElement</dfn> : <a href="elements.html#htmlelement">HTMLElement</a> {
attribute unsigned long <a href="#dom-canvas-width" title="dom-canvas-width">width</a>;
attribute unsigned long <a href="#dom-canvas-height" title="dom-canvas-height">height</a>;
DOMString <a href="#dom-canvas-todataurl" title="dom-canvas-toDataURL">toDataURL</a>(in optional DOMString type, in any... args);
void <a href="#dom-canvas-toblob" title="dom-canvas-toBlob">toBlob</a>(in <span>FileCallback</span>, in optional DOMString type, in any... args);
object <a href="#dom-canvas-getcontext" title="dom-canvas-getContext">getContext</a>(in DOMString contextId, in any... args);
};</pre>
</dd>
</dl><p>The <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element provides scripts with a
resolution-dependent bitmap canvas, which can be used for rendering
graphs, game graphics, or other visual images on the fly.</p><p>Authors should not use the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element in a
document when a more suitable element is available. For example, it
is inappropriate to use a <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element to render a
page heading: if the desired presentation of the heading is
graphically intense, it should be marked up using appropriate
elements (typically <code><a href="sections.html#the-h1-h2-h3-h4-h5-and-h6-elements">h1</a></code>) and then styled using CSS and
supporting technologies such as XBL.</p><p>When authors use the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element, they must also
provide content that, when presented to the user, conveys
essentially the same function or purpose as the bitmap canvas. This
content may be placed as content of the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code>
element. The contents of the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element, if any,
are the element's <a href="content-models.html#fallback-content">fallback content</a>.</p><p>In interactive visual media, if <a href="webappapis.html#concept-n-script" title="concept-n-script">scripting is enabled</a> for the
<code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element, and if support for <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code>
elements has been enabled, the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element
<a href="rendering.html#represents">represents</a> <a href="content-models.html#embedded-content">embedded content</a> consisting of
a dynamically created image.</p><p>In non-interactive, static, visual media, if the
<code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element has been previously painted on (e.g. if
the page was viewed in an interactive visual medium and is now being
printed, or if some script that ran during the page layout process
painted on the element), then the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element
<a href="rendering.html#represents">represents</a> <a href="content-models.html#embedded-content">embedded content</a> with the
current image and size. Otherwise, the element represents its
<a href="content-models.html#fallback-content">fallback content</a> instead.</p><p>In non-visual media, and in visual media if <a href="webappapis.html#concept-n-noscript" title="concept-n-noscript">scripting is disabled</a> for the
<code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element or if support for <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code>
elements has been disabled, the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element
<a href="rendering.html#represents">represents</a> its <a href="content-models.html#fallback-content">fallback content</a>
instead.</p><!-- CANVAS-FOCUS-FALLBACK --><p>When a <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element <a href="rendering.html#represents">represents</a>
<a href="content-models.html#embedded-content">embedded content</a>, the user can still focus descendants
of the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element (in the <a href="content-models.html#fallback-content">fallback
content</a>). When an element is focused, it is the target of
keyboard interaction events (even though the element itself is not
visible). This allows authors to make an interactive canvas
keyboard-accessible: authors should have a one-to-one mapping of
interactive regions to focusable elements in the <a href="content-models.html#fallback-content">fallback
content</a>. (Focus has no effect on mouse interaction
events.) <a href="references.html#refsDOMEVENTS">[DOMEVENTS]</a></p><p>The <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element has two attributes to control the
size of the coordinate space: <dfn id="attr-canvas-width" title="attr-canvas-width"><code>width</code></dfn> and <dfn id="attr-canvas-height" title="attr-canvas-height"><code>height</code></dfn>. These
attributes, when specified, must have values that are <a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#valid-non-negative-integer" title="valid non-negative integer">valid non-negative
integers</a>. <span class="impl">The <a href="common-microsyntaxes.html#rules-for-parsing-non-negative-integers">rules for parsing
non-negative integers</a> must be used to obtain their numeric
values. If an attribute is missing, or if parsing its value returns
an error, then the default value must be used instead.</span> The
<code title="attr-canvas-width"><a href="#attr-canvas-width">width</a></code> attribute defaults to
300, and the <code title="attr-canvas-height"><a href="#attr-canvas-height">height</a></code>
attribute defaults to 150.</p><p>The intrinsic dimensions of the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element equal
the size of the coordinate space, with the numbers interpreted in
CSS pixels. However, the element can be sized arbitrarily by a
style sheet. During rendering, the image is scaled to fit this layout
size.</p><div class="impl">
<p>The size of the coordinate space does not necessarily represent
the size of the actual bitmap that the user agent will use
internally or during rendering. On high-definition displays, for
instance, the user agent may internally use a bitmap with two device
pixels per unit in the coordinate space, so that the rendering
remains at high quality throughout.</p>
<p>When the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element is created, and subsequently
whenever the <code title="attr-canvas-width"><a href="#attr-canvas-width">width</a></code> and <code title="attr-canvas-height"><a href="#attr-canvas-height">height</a></code> attributes are set (whether
to a new value or to the previous value), the bitmap and any
associated contexts must be cleared back to their initial state and
reinitialized with the newly specified coordinate space
dimensions.</p>
<p>When the canvas is initialized, its bitmap must be cleared to
transparent black.</p>
<p>The <dfn id="dom-canvas-width" title="dom-canvas-width"><code>width</code></dfn> and
<dfn id="dom-canvas-height" title="dom-canvas-height"><code>height</code></dfn> IDL
attributes must <a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#reflect">reflect</a> the respective content
attributes of the same name, with the same defaults.</p>
</div><div class="example">
<p>Only one square appears to be drawn in the following example:</p>
<pre> // canvas is a reference to a &lt;canvas&gt; element
var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
context.fillRect(0,0,50,50);
canvas.setAttribute('width', '300'); // clears the canvas
context.fillRect(0,100,50,50);
canvas.width = canvas.width; // clears the canvas
context.fillRect(100,0,50,50); // only this square remains</pre>
</div><hr><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">context</var> = <var title="">canvas</var> . <code title="dom-canvas-getContext"><a href="#dom-canvas-getcontext">getContext</a></code>(<var title="">contextId</var> [, ... ])</dt>
<dd>
<p>Returns an object that exposes an API for drawing on the
canvas. The first argument specifies the desired API. Subsequent
arguments are handled by that API.</p>
<p>The list of defined contexts is given on the <a href="http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/CanvasContexts">WHATWG Wiki
CanvasContexts page</a>. <a href="references.html#refsWHATWGWIKI">[WHATWGWIKI]</a>
</p><p>Returns null if the given context ID is not supported or if the
canvas has already been initialised with some other (incompatible)
context type (e.g. trying to get a "<code title="canvas-context-2d">2d</code>" context after getting a
"<code title="canvas-context-webgl">webgl</code>" context).</p>
</dd>
</dl><div class="impl">
<p>A <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element can have a <dfn id="primary-context">primary
context</dfn>, which is the first context to have been obtained for
that element. When created, a <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element must not
have a <a href="#primary-context">primary context</a>.</p>
<p>The most commonly used primary context is the <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/2dcontext/">HTML Canvas 2D Context</a>.
</p><p>The <dfn id="dom-canvas-getcontext" title="dom-canvas-getContext"><code>getContext(<var title="">contextId</var>, <var title="">args...</var>)</code></dfn>
method of the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element, when invoked, must run
the following steps:</p>
<ol><li><p>Let <var title="">contextId</var> be the first argument to
the method.</p></li>
<li>
<p>If <var title="">contextId</var> is not the name of a context
supported by the user agent, return null and abort these
steps.</p>
<p class="note">An example of this would be a user agent that
theoretically supports the "<code title="canvas-context-webgl">webgl</code>" 3D context, in the case
where the platform does not have hardware support for OpenGL and
the user agent does not have a software OpenGL implementation.
Despite the user agent recognising the "<code title="canvas-context-webgl">webgl</code>" name, it would return
null at this step because that context is not, in practice,
supported at the time of the call.</p>
</li>
<li><p>If the element has a <a href="#primary-context">primary context</a> and that
context's entry in the <a href="http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/CanvasContexts">WHATWG Wiki
CanvasContexts page</a> does not list <var title="">contextId</var>
as a context with which it is compatible, return null and abort
these steps. <a href="references.html#refsWHATWGWIKI">[WHATWGWIKI]</a></p></li>
<li><p>If the element does not have a <a href="#primary-context">primary context</a>,
let the element's <a href="#primary-context">primary context</a> be <var title="">contextId</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>If the <code title="dom-canvas-getContext"><a href="#dom-canvas-getcontext">getContext()</a></code> method has
already been invoked on this element for the same <var title="">contextId</var>, return the same object as was returned
that time, and abort these steps. The additional arguments are
ignored.</p></li>
<li><p><dfn id="getcontext-return" title="getContext-return">Return a new object for <var title="">contextId</var></dfn>, as defined by the specification
given for <var title="">contextId</var>'s entry in the <a href="http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/CanvasContexts">WHATWG Wiki
CanvasContexts page</a>. <a href="references.html#refsWHATWGWIKI">[WHATWGWIKI]</a></p></li>
</ol><p>New context types may be registered in the <a href="http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/CanvasContexts">WHATWG Wiki
CanvasContexts page</a>. <a href="references.html#refsWHATWGWIKI">[WHATWGWIKI]</a></p>
<p>Anyone is free to edit the WHATWG Wiki CanvasContexts page at any
time to add a new context type. These new context types must be
specified with the following information:</p>
<dl><dt>Keyword</dt>
<dd><p>The value of <var title="">contextID</var> that will return
the object for the new API.</p></dd>
<dt>Specification</dt>
<dd><p>A link to a formal specification of the context type's
API. It could be another page on the Wiki, or a link to an external
page. If the type does not have a formal specification, an informal
description can be substituted until such time as a formal
specification is available.</p></dd>
<dt>Compatible with</dt>
<dd><p>The list of context types that are compatible with this one
(i.e. that operate on the same underlying bitmap). This list must
be transitive and symmetric; if one context type is defined as
compatible with another, then all types it is compatible with must
be compatible with all types the other is compatible with.</p></dd>
</dl><p>Vendors may also define experimental contexts using the syntax
<code><var title="">vendorname</var>-<var title="">context</var></code>, for example,
<code>moz-3d</code>. Such contexts should be registered in the
WHATWG Wiki CanvasContexts page.</p>
</div><hr><dl class="domintro"><dt><var title="">url</var> = <var title="">canvas</var> . <code title="dom-canvas-toDataURL"><a href="#dom-canvas-todataurl">toDataURL</a></code>( [ <var title="">type</var>, ... ])</dt>
<dd>
<p>Returns a <a href="infrastructure.html#data-protocol" title="data protocol"><code title="">data:</code> URL</a> for the image in the canvas.</p>
<p>The first argument, if provided, controls the type of the image
to be returned (e.g. PNG or JPEG). The default is <code title="">image/png</code>; that type is also used if the given
type isn't supported. The other arguments are specific to the
type, and control the way that the image is generated, as given in
the table below.</p>
<p>When trying to use types other than "<code>image/png</code>",
authors can check if the image was really returned in the
requested format by checking to see if the returned string starts
with one of the exact strings "<code title="">data:image/png,</code>" or "<code title="">data:image/png;</code>". If it does, the image is PNG,
and thus the requested type was not supported. (The one exception
to this is if the canvas has either no height or no width, in
which case the result might simply be "<code title="">data:,</code>".)</p>
</dd>
<dt><var title="">canvas</var> . <code title="dom-canvas-toBlob"><a href="#dom-canvas-toblob">toBlob</a></code>(<var title="">callback</var> [, <var title="">type</var>, ... ])</dt>
<dd>
<p>Creates a <code><a href="infrastructure.html#blob">Blob</a></code> object representing a file
containing the image in the canvas, and invokes a callback with a
handle to that object.</p>
<p>The second argument, if provided, controls the type of the
image to be returned (e.g. PNG or JPEG). The default is <code title="">image/png</code>; that type is also used if the given
type isn't supported. The other arguments are specific to the
type, and control the way that the image is generated, as given in
the table below.</p>
</dd>
</dl><div class="impl">
<p>The <dfn id="dom-canvas-todataurl" title="dom-canvas-toDataURL"><code>toDataURL()</code></dfn> method
must run the following steps:</p>
<ol><li><p>If the canvas has no pixels (i.e. either its horizontal
dimension or its vertical dimension is zero) then return the string
"<code title="">data:,</code>" and abort these steps. (This is the
shortest <a href="infrastructure.html#data-protocol" title="data protocol"><code title="">data:</code>
URL</a>; it represents the empty string in a <code title="">text/plain</code> resource.)</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">file</var> be <a href="#a-serialization-of-the-image-as-a-file">a serialization of the
image as a file</a>, using the method's arguments (if any) as
the <var title="">arguments</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>Return a <a href="infrastructure.html#data-protocol" title="data protocol"><code title="">data:</code> URL</a> representing <var title="">file</var>. <a href="references.html#refsRFC2397">[RFC2397]</a></p>
</li></ol><p>The <dfn id="dom-canvas-toblob" title="dom-canvas-toBlob"><code>toBlob()</code></dfn> method
must run the following steps:</p>
<ol><li><p>Let <var title="">callback</var> be the first
argument.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">arguments</var> be the second and
subsequent arguments to the method, if any.</p></li>
<li><p>Let <var title="">file</var> be <a href="#a-serialization-of-the-image-as-a-file">a serialization of the
image as a file</a>, using <var title="">arguments</var>.</p></li>
<li><p>Return, but continue running these steps
asynchronously.</p></li>
<li><p>If <var title="">callback</var> is null, abort these
steps.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="webappapis.html#queue-a-task">Queue a task</a> to invoke the
<code>FileCallback</code> <var title="">callback</var> with a
<code><a href="infrastructure.html#blob">Blob</a></code> object representing <var title="">file</var> as
its argument. The <a href="webappapis.html#task-source">task source</a> for this task is the
<dfn id="canvas-blob-serialization-task-source">canvas blob serialization task source</dfn>. <a href="references.html#refsFILESYSTEMAPI">[FILESYSTEMAPI]</a> <a href="references.html#refsFILEAPI">[FILEAPI]</a> </p></li>
</ol><p>When a user agent is to create <dfn id="a-serialization-of-the-image-as-a-file">a serialization of the image
as a file</dfn>, optionally with some given <var title="">arguments</var>, it must create an image file in the format
given by the first value of <var title="">arguments</var>, or, if
there are no <var title="">arguments</var>, in the PNG format. <a href="references.html#refsPNG">[PNG]</a></p>
<p>If <var title="">arguments</var> is not empty, the first value
must be interpreted as a <a href="infrastructure.html#mime-type" title="MIME type">MIME type</a>
giving the format to use. If the type has any parameters, it must be
treated as not supported.</p>
<p class="example">For example, the value "<code>image/png</code>" would
mean to generate a PNG image, the value "<code>image/jpeg</code>"
would mean to generate a JPEG image, and the value
"<code>image/svg+xml</code>" would mean to generate an SVG image
(which would probably require that the implementation actually keep
enough information to reliably render an SVG image from the canvas).</p>
<p>User agents must support PNG ("<code>image/png</code>"). User
agents may support other types. If the user agent does not support
the requested type, it must create the file using the PNG format. <a href="references.html#refsPNG">[PNG]</a></p>
<p>User agents must <a href="infrastructure.html#converted-to-ascii-lowercase" title="converted to ASCII
lowercase">convert the provided type to ASCII lowercase</a>
before establishing if they support that type.</p>
<p>For image types that do not support an alpha channel, the
serialized image must be the canvas image composited onto a solid
black background using the source-over operator.</p>
<p>If the first argument in <var title="">arguments</var> gives a
type corresponding to one of the types given in the first column of
the following table, and the user agent supports that type, then the
subsequent arguments, if any, must be treated as described in the
second cell of that row.</p>
</div><table><thead><tr><th> Type </th><th> Other arguments </th><th> Reference
</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td> <code>image/jpeg</code>
</td><td> The second argument<span class="impl">, if it</span> is a
number in the range 0.0 to 1.0 inclusive<span class="impl">, must
be</span> treated as the desired quality level. <span class="impl">If it is not a number or is outside that range, the
user agent must use its default value, as if the argument had
been omitted.</span>
</td><td> <a href="references.html#refsJPEG">[JPEG]</a>
</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="impl">
<p>For the purposes of these rules, an argument is considered to be
a number if it is converted to an IDL double value by the rules for
handling arguments of type <code title="">any</code> in the Web IDL
specification. <a href="references.html#refsWEBIDL">[WEBIDL]</a></p>
<p>Other arguments must be ignored and must not cause the user agent
to raise an exception. A future version of this specification will
probably define other parameters to be passed to these methods to
allow authors to more carefully control compression settings, image
metadata, etc.</p>
</div><div class="impl">
<h5 id="color-spaces-and-color-correction"><span class="secno">4.8.11.1 </span>Color spaces and color correction</h5>
<p>The <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> APIs must perform color correction at
only two points: when rendering images with their own gamma
correction and color space information onto the canvas, to convert
the image to the color space used by the canvas (e.g. using the 2D
Context's <code title="dom-context-2d-drawImage">drawImage()</code>
method with an <code><a href="embedded-content-1.html#htmlimageelement">HTMLImageElement</a></code> object), and when
rendering the actual canvas bitmap to the output device.</p>
<p class="note">Thus, in the 2D context, colors used to draw shapes
onto the canvas will exactly match colors obtained through the <code title="dom-context-2d-getImageData">getImageData()</code>
method.</p>
<p>The <code title="dom-canvas-toDataURL"><a href="#dom-canvas-todataurl">toDataURL()</a></code> method
must not include color space information in the resource
returned. Where the output format allows it, the color of pixels in
resources created by <code title="dom-canvas-toDataURL"><a href="#dom-canvas-todataurl">toDataURL()</a></code> must match those
returned by the <code title="dom-context-2d-getImageData">getImageData()</code>
method.</p>
<p>In user agents that support CSS, the color space used by a
<code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element must match the color space used for
processing any colors for that element in CSS.</p>
<p>The gamma correction and color space information of images must
be handled in such a way that an image rendered directly using an
<code><a href="embedded-content-1.html#the-img-element">img</a></code> element would use the same colors as one painted on
a <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element that is then itself
rendered. Furthermore, the rendering of images that have no color
correction information (such as those returned by the <code title="dom-canvas-toDataURL"><a href="#dom-canvas-todataurl">toDataURL()</a></code> method) must be
rendered with no color correction.</p>
<p class="note">Thus, in the 2D context, calling the <code title="dom-context-2d-drawImage">drawImage()</code> method to render
the output of the <code title="dom-canvas-toDataURL"><a href="#dom-canvas-todataurl">toDataURL()</a></code> method to the
canvas, given the appropriate dimensions, has no visible effect.</p>
</div><div class="impl">
<h5 id="security-with-canvas-elements"><span class="secno">4.8.11.2 </span>Security with <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> elements</h5>
<p><strong>Information leakage</strong> can occur if scripts from
one <a href="origin-0.html#origin">origin</a> can access information (e.g. read pixels)
from images from another origin (one that isn't the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin" title="same origin">same</a>).</p>
<p>To mitigate this, <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> elements are defined to
have a flag indicating whether they are <i>origin-clean</i>. All
<code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> elements must start with their
<i>origin-clean</i> set to true. The flag must be set to false if
any of the following actions occur:</p>
<ul><li><p>The element's 2D context's <code title="dom-context-2d-drawImage">drawImage()</code> method is
called with an <code><a href="embedded-content-1.html#htmlimageelement">HTMLImageElement</a></code> or an
<code><a href="the-iframe-element.html#htmlvideoelement">HTMLVideoElement</a></code> whose <a href="origin-0.html#origin">origin</a> is not the
<a href="origin-0.html#same-origin" title="same origin">same</a> as that of the
<code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> object that owns the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code>
element.</p></li>
<li><p>The element's 2D context's <code title="dom-context-2d-drawImage">drawImage()</code> method is
called with an <code><a href="#htmlcanvaselement">HTMLCanvasElement</a></code> whose
<i>origin-clean</i> flag is false.</p></li>
<li><p>The element's 2D context's <code title="dom-context-2d-fillStyle">fillStyle</code> attribute is set
to a <code>CanvasPattern</code> object that was created from an
<code><a href="embedded-content-1.html#htmlimageelement">HTMLImageElement</a></code> or an <code><a href="the-iframe-element.html#htmlvideoelement">HTMLVideoElement</a></code>
whose <a href="origin-0.html#origin">origin</a> was not the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin" title="same
origin">same</a> as that of the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> object
that owns the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element when the pattern was
created.</p></li>
<li><p>The element's 2D context's <code title="dom-context-2d-fillStyle">fillStyle</code> attribute is set
to a <code>CanvasPattern</code> object that was created from an
<code><a href="#htmlcanvaselement">HTMLCanvasElement</a></code> whose <i>origin-clean</i> flag was
false when the pattern was created.</p></li>
<li><p>The element's 2D context's <code title="dom-context-2d-strokeStyle">strokeStyle</code> attribute is
set to a <code>CanvasPattern</code> object that was created from an
<code><a href="embedded-content-1.html#htmlimageelement">HTMLImageElement</a></code> or an <code><a href="the-iframe-element.html#htmlvideoelement">HTMLVideoElement</a></code>
whose <a href="origin-0.html#origin">origin</a> was not the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin" title="same
origin">same</a> as that of the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> object
that owns the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element when the pattern was
created.</p></li>
<li><p>The element's 2D context's <code title="dom-context-2d-strokeStyle">strokeStyle</code> attribute is
set to a <code>CanvasPattern</code> object that was created from an
<code><a href="#htmlcanvaselement">HTMLCanvasElement</a></code> whose <i>origin-clean</i> flag was
false when the pattern was created.</p></li>
<li><p>The element's 2D context's <code title="dom-context-2d-fillText">fillText()</code> or <code title="dom-context-2d-fillText">strokeText()</code> methods are
invoked and consider using a font that has an <a href="origin-0.html#origin">origin</a>
that is not the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin" title="same origin">same</a> as that of
the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> object that owns the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code>
element. (The font doesn't even have to be used; all that matters
is whether the font was considered for any of the glyphs
drawn.)</p></li>
</ul><p>Whenever the <code title="dom-canvas-toDataURL"><a href="#dom-canvas-todataurl">toDataURL()</a></code> method of a
<code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element whose <i>origin-clean</i> flag is set to
false is called, the method must raise a <code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#security_err">SECURITY_ERR</a></code>
exception.</p>
<p>Whenever the <code title="dom-context-2d-getImageData">getImageData()</code> method of
the 2D context of a <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element whose
<i>origin-clean</i> flag is set to false is called with otherwise
correct arguments, the method must raise a <code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#security_err">SECURITY_ERR</a></code>
exception.</p>
<p>Whenever the <code title="dom-context-2d-measureText">measureText()</code> method of
the 2D context of a <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element ends up using a font
that has an <a href="origin-0.html#origin">origin</a> that is not the <a href="origin-0.html#same-origin" title="same
origin">same</a> as that of the <code><a href="infrastructure.html#document">Document</a></code> object that
owns the <code><a href="#the-canvas-element">canvas</a></code> element, the method must raise a
<code><a href="common-dom-interfaces.html#security_err">SECURITY_ERR</a></code> exception.</p>
<p class="note">Even resetting the canvas state by changing its
<code title="attr-canvas-width"><a href="#attr-canvas-width">width</a></code> or <code title="attr-canvas-height"><a href="#attr-canvas-height">height</a></code> attributes doesn't reset
the <i>origin-clean</i> flag.</p>
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