[whatwg] Request: Canvas Tag CSS

[Ian Hickson]

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008, Greg Houston wrote:
>
> Having worked with the canvas tag quite a bit now, I've found that it is 
> a bit awkward that the canvas tag is not taking advantage of CSS. If you 
> are changing your site design, perhaps you want to change the colors 
> used in your line graphs as well. So you make the changes in your CSS 
> for the majority of your elements, which is rather painless, and then 
> for the canvas tag you then have to start digging through the JavaScript 
> to make your changes.

For simple things, e.g. colours or fonts, you can use getComputedStyle() 
on the <canvas> itself to get styles from the CSS, and use those in the JS 
instead of hardcoding the values. But this doesn't work as a general 
solution for multiple colours, gradients, etc.

It's not clear to me how to solve this problem in general, e.g. for things 
like gradients and patterns, where CSS doesn't really match the way canvas 
works. Short of inventing a bunch of new syntax, I don't know what to do.

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