Function: getOrCreateCanvas()

getOrCreateCanvas(element): HTMLCanvasElement

Create a canvas or returns the one that already exists for a given element. It first checks if the element has a canvas, if not it creates one and returns it. The canvas is updated for:

1. width/height in screen pixels to completely cover the div element
2. CSS width/height in CSS pixels to be the size of the physical screen pixels width and height (from #1) This allows drawing to the canvas and having pixel perfect/exact drawing to the physical screen pixels.

Parameters

• element: HTMLDivElement

An HTML Element

Returns

HTMLCanvasElement

canvas a Canvas DOM element

Defined in

packages/core/src/RenderingEngine/helpers/getOrCreateCanvas.ts:56