Creating a canvas element and setting its width and height attributes using jQuery

Question

I was just trying to do the following in jQuery:

var newCanvas = $(\'\',{\'width\':100,\'height\':200,\'class\':\'radHuh\'});
$(body).append(n         


        

Answer 1

Edit: This is slower, see comments below.

This will likely be faster than any workaround posted here:

var attributes = {width: 100, height: 100, class: "whatever"};
$('<canvas width="'+attributes.width+'" height="'+attributes.height+'" class="'+attributes.class+'""></canvas>').appendTo(document.body);

Slightly less fancier, but it's esentially the same with less function calls.

Answer 2

You can use like this

$('<canvas/>',{'class':'radHuh','Width':100,'Height':200});

Change the case and try

Answer 3

I found that this worked the best:

$('<canvas height="50px" width="50px"/>')

You can also add id, class, or other attributes this way. Because it is not in the style="" attribute, it does not count as CSS and mess up your shapes.

Answer 4

jQuery try to match each attribute name with a jQuery function name. Matched functions are called.

width and height are jQuery functions, so your original code is equivalent to this:

  var newCanvas = 
    $('<canvas/>',{'class':'radHuh'})
    .width(100)
    .height(100);

width(value) and height(value) functions set CSS width and height of an element.

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Relevant jQuery source code line (https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/attributes.js#L308)

if ( pass && name in jQuery.attrFn ) {

attrFn object definition (https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/attributes.js#L288):

attrFn: {
    val: true,
    css: true,
    html: true,
    text: true,
    data: true,
    width: true,
    height: true,
    offset: true
},

Answer 5

It seem like changing the case of any letter will prevent jQuery from converting the attribute to a style, so ranganadh probably stumbled on to some unintended flaw in jQuery where it checks the attribute against styles, but not case-insensitive.

This for instance seems to work aswell ??

var newCanvas = $('<canvas/>', {heiGht: 200, widtH: 100});
$('body').append(newCanvas);​​​

The native JS attributes are not converted to styles, and I'd probably go with the below solution to make sure it's "future proof" ( setAttribute() seems to work fine aswell ) :

var newCanvas = $('<canvas/>');
    newCanvas[0].height = 200;
    newCanvas[0].width = 100;

$('body').append(newCanvas);​​​

Answer 6

var newCanvas = $('<canvas/>',{
                   'class':'radHuh',
                    id: 'myCanvas'                   
                }).prop({
                    width: 200,
                    height: 200
                });
$('#canvas').append(newCanvas);

Proof