How to take a screenshot in html with javascript?

Question

I'm a newbie in html and javascript. And I'm trying to take a screenshot of my page of html and save it as jpg or png file.

Here is my html image

I want to take a screenshot of right side(colored with gray) with those drag and drop divs by pressing Image Save button at the right corner from image.

How can I take a screen shot with html and javascript? I saw some of html2canvas but that is not what I want. I think..

Does anybody have an idea for this?

Thanks,

p.s. if you want the code of my html, I can EDIT

Answer 1

You can only capture images or video frames as a screenshot using Canvas. But if you want to capture particular element on a web page try this library: html2canvas

Here is the code:

Note: Adjust dimensions carefully in drawImage() function

$(".drag").draggable();
$(".drag").droppable();
var takeScreenShot = function() {
    html2canvas(document.getElementById("container"), {
        onrendered: function (canvas) {
            var tempcanvas=document.createElement('canvas');
            tempcanvas.width=350;
            tempcanvas.height=350;
            var context=tempcanvas.getContext('2d');
            context.drawImage(canvas,112,0,288,200,0,0,350,350);
            var link=document.createElement("a");
            link.href=tempcanvas.toDataURL('image/jpg');   //function blocks CORS
            link.download = 'screenshot.jpg';
            link.click();
        }
    });
}

#container{
    width:400px;
    height:200px;
}
#rightcontainer{
    width:300px;
    height:200px;
    background:gray;
    color:#fff;
    margin-left:110px;
    padding:10px;
}
#leftmenu{
    color:#fff;
    background-color:green;
    width:100px;
    height:200px;
    position:fixed;
    left:0;
    padding:10px;
}

button{
    display:block;
    height:20px;
    margin-top:10px;
    margin-bottom:10px;
}
.drag{
  width:40px;
  height:20px;
  background-color:blue;
  z-index:100000;
  margin-top:10px;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html2canvas/0.4.1/html2canvas.min.js"></script>
  
  
<button onclick="takeScreenShot()">Snapshot</button>
<div id="container">
    <div id="leftmenu">
      Left Side
      <div class="drag">
      </div>
      <div class="drag">
      </div>
      <div class="drag">
      </div>
      Drag----------->
            &
      Click Snapshot
    </div>
    <div id="rightcontainer">
        Right Side
    </div>
</div>