I'm trying to capture a div into an image using html2canvas
I have read some similar question here like
How to upload a screenshot using html2canvas?
create screenshot of web page using html2canvas (unable to initialize properly)
I have tried the code
canvasRecord = $('#div').html2canvas();
dataURL = canvasRecord.toDataURL("image/png");
and the canvasRecord
will be undefined
after .html2canvas()
called
and also this
$('#div').html2canvas({
onrendered: function (canvas) {
var img = canvas.toDataURL()
window.open(img);
}
});
browser gives some (48 to be exact) similar errors like:
GET http://html2canvas.appspot.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmts1.googleapis.com%2Fvt%…%26z%3D12%26s%3DGalileo%26style%3Dapi%257Csmartmaps&callback=html2canvas_1 404 (Not Found)
BTW, I'm using v0.34 and I have added the reference file html2canvas.min.js
and jquery.plugin.html2canvas.js
How can I convert the div
into canvas
in order to capture the image.
EDIT on 26/Mar/2013
I found Joel's example works.
But unfortunately when Google map embedded in my app, there will be errors.
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
div#testdiv
{
height:200px;
width:200px;
background:#222;
}
div#map_canvas
{
height: 500px;
width: 800px;
position: absolute !important;
left: 500px;
top: 0;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3&sensor=false"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="html2canvas.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.7.2.min.js"></script>
<script language="javascript">
$(window).load(function(){
var mapOptions = {
backgroundColor: '#fff',
center: new google.maps.LatLng(1.355, 103.815),
overviewMapControl: true,
overviewMapControlOptions: { opened: false },
mapTypeControl: true,
mapTypeControlOptions: { position: google.maps.ControlPosition.TOP_LEFT, style: google.maps.MapTypeControlStyle.DROPDOWN_MENU },
panControlOptions: { position: google.maps.ControlPosition.RIGHT_CENTER },
zoomControlOptions: { position: google.maps.ControlPosition.RIGHT_CENTER },
streetViewControlOptions: { position: google.maps.ControlPosition.RIGHT_CENTER },
disableDoubleClickZoom: true,
mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
minZoom: 1,
zoom: 12
};
map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map_canvas'), mapOptions);
$('#load').click(function(){
html2canvas($('#testdiv'), {
onrendered: function (canvas) {
var img = canvas.toDataURL("image/png")
window.open(img);
}
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="testdiv">
</div>
<div id="map_canvas"></div>
<input type="button" value="Save" id="load"/>
</body>
</html>
you can try this code to capture a div When the div is very wide or offset relative to the screen
It can be easily done using html2canvas, try out the following,
try adding the div inside a html modal and call the model id using a jquery function. In the function you can specify the size (height, width) of the image to be displayed. Using modal is an easy way to capture a html div into an image in a button onclick.
for example have a look at the code sample,
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paste the div, which you want to be displayed, inside the model. Hope it will help.
You should try this (test, works at least in Firefox):
Im running these lines of code to get the full browser screen (only the visible screen, not the hole site):
More explanations & options here: http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/#/documentation.html
I ran into the same type of error you described, but mine was due to the dom not being completely ready to go. I tested with both jQuery pulling the div and also getElementById just to make sure there wasn't something strange with the jQuery selector. Below is an example that works in Chrome:
If you just want to have screenshot of a div, you can do it like this
window.open didn't work for me... just a blank page rendered... but I was able to make the png appear on the page by replacing the src attribute of a pre-existing img element created as the target.
I can then right-click on the rendered png and "save as". May be just as easy to use the "snipping tool" to capture the element, but html2canvas is an certainly an interesting bit of code!