Crop an image displayed in a Canvas

Question

I have a canvas tag:

I want to add a crop functionality, so I

Answer 1

Create a new canvas at destination size, draw in the cropped image using drawImage() and insert that canvas into the DOM avoiding using img and data-uri:

var ccanvas = document.createElement("canvas"),
    cctx = ccanvas.getContext("2d");

ccanvas.width = w;
ccanvas.height = h;

// draw with crop arguments
cctx.drawImage(image_src,  x, y, w, h,  0, 0, w, h);
//                         ^^^^^^^^^^ source region
//                                      ^^^^^^^^^^ dest. region

// insert cropped image somewhere in the DOM tree:
document.body.appendChild(ccanvas);

window.onload = function() {

  var img = document.getElementById("image_src");

  document.body.appendChild(region2canvas(img, 150, 60, 220, 200));
}

function region2canvas(img, x, y, w, h) {
  var ccanvas = document.createElement("canvas"),
    cctx = ccanvas.getContext("2d");

  ccanvas.width = w;
  ccanvas.height = h;

  // draw with crop arguments
  cctx.drawImage(img, x, y, w, h, 0, 0, w, h);

  return ccanvas;
}