Create an Image of a DIV in JavaScript (GIF/PNG)

Question

I\'m wondering is there a JavaScript library available that would allow me to generate an Image from the contents of a DIV.

Basically this is required for some Serve

Answer 1

You can create an image tag from JavaScript but not the actual image in it: JS has no commands to allocate memory for the bitmap and it has no commands to render anything on it.

The usual solution is to have a report generator on the server which creates the image on request. Look at BIRT or JasperReports.

[EDIT] Based on your comment, the solution is simple: Examine the DIV, find the URL for the background image and replace the DIV with an IMG element. Put the URL into the SRC attribute and then print.