Rendering HTML elements to <canvas>

Take a look on MDN (archived)

It will render html element using creating SVG images.

For Example: There is <em>I</em> like <span style="color:white; text-shadow:0 0 2px blue;">cheese</span> HTML element. And I want to add it into <canvas id="canvas" style="border:2px solid black;" width="200" height="200"></canvas> Canvas Element.

Here is Javascript Code to add HTML element to canvas.

var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');

var data = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="200" height="200">' +
  '<foreignObject width="100%" height="100%">' +
  '<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" style="font-size:40px">' +
  '<em>I</em> like <span style="color:white; text-shadow:0 0 2px blue;">cheese</span>' +
  '</div>' +
  '</foreignObject>' +
  '</svg>';

var DOMURL = window.URL || window.webkitURL || window;

var img = new Image();
var svg = new Blob([data], {
  type: 'image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8'
});
var url = DOMURL.createObjectURL(svg);

img.onload = function() {
  ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
  DOMURL.revokeObjectURL(url);
}

img.src = url;

<canvas id="canvas" style="border:2px solid black;" width="200" height="200"></canvas>

You won't get real HTML rendering to <canvas> per se currently, because canvas context does not have functions to render HTML elements.

There are some emulations:

html2canvas project http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/index.html (basically a HTML renderer attempt built on Javascript + canvas)

HTML to SVG to <canvas> might be possible depending on your use case:

https://github.com/miohtama/Krusovice/blob/master/src/tools/html2svg2canvas.js

Also if you are using Firefox you can hack some extended permissions and then render a DOM window to <canvas>

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Canvas/Drawing_Graphics_with_Canvas?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Drawing_Graphics_with_Canvas#Rendering_Web_Content_Into_A_Canvas