Download canvas as an image

Just one click...

by gavinfoley

HTML

<a id="download">Download as image</a>

CSS

body {
	    background-color:#555557;
	    padding:0;
	    margin:0;
	    overflow:hidden;
	    font-family:sans-serif;
	    -webkit-user-select: none;
	    -khtml-user-select: none;
	    -moz-user-select: none;
	    -ms-user-select: none;
	    user-select: none;
	}
	canvas {
	    border:1px solid #000;
	    float:left;
	    clear:both;
	}
	#download {
	    float:left;
	    cursor:pointer;
	    color:#ccc;
	    padding:3px;
	}
	#download:hover {
	    color:#fff;
	}
	/*
	div, input {
	    font-size:16px;
	    font-family:sans-serif;
	    border:1px solid #000;
	    border-radius: 5px;
	    float:left;
	    padding:5px;
	    width:50px;
	    margin:1px 1px;
	    background-color:#bbb;
	}
	input[type='text'] {
	    font-size:16px;
	    font-weight:bold;
	    width:70px;
	    text-align:center;
	    background-color:#fff;
	    padding-bottom:4px;
	}
	input[type='button'] {
	    font-size:16px;
	    font-weight:bold;
	    width:110px;
	    text-align:center;
	    background-color:#333;
	    color:#eee;
	    padding-bottom:4px;
	}
	input[type='button']:hover {
	    background-color:#fff463;
	    color:#000;
	}
	input[type='range'] {
	    width:100px;
	    margin:0 0 0 10px;
	}
*/

JavaScript

/**
 *    Ken Fyrstenberg Nilsen
 *    Abidas Software
*/
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas'),
    ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
    
    canvas.width = 500;
    canvas.height = 300;

/**
 * Demonstrates how to download a canvas an image with a single
 * direct click on a link.
 */
function doCanvas() {
    /* draw something */
    ctx.fillStyle = '#f90';
    ctx.fillRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
    ctx.fillStyle = '#fff';
    ctx.font = '60px sans-serif';
    ctx.fillText('Code Project', 10, canvas.height / 2 - 15);
    ctx.font = '26px sans-serif';
    ctx.fillText('Click link below to save this as image', 15, canvas.height / 2 + 35);
}

/**
 * This is the function that will take care of image extracting and
 * setting proper filename for the download.
 * IMPORTANT: Call it from within a onclick event.
*/
function downloadCanvas(link, canvasId, filename) {
    link.href = canvas.toDataURL();
    link.download = filename;
}

/** 
 * The event handler for the link's onclick event. We give THIS as a
 * parameter (=the link element), ID of the canvas and a filename.
*/
document.getElementById('download').addEventListener('click', function() {
    downloadCanvas(this, 'canvas', 'test.png');
}, false);

/**
 * Draw something to canvas
 */
doCanvas();