This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The canvas read-only property of the GPUCanvasContext interface returns a reference to the canvas that the context was created from.
An HTMLCanvasElement or OffscreenCanvas object instance.
const canvas = document.querySelector("#gpuCanvas");
const context = canvas.getContext("webgpu");
// returns an HTMLCanvasElement reference
context.canvas;
| Specification |
|---|
| WebGPU> # dom-gpucanvascontext-canvas> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
canvas |
113Currently supported on ChromeOS, macOS, and Windows only. |
113Currently supported on ChromeOS, macOS, and Windows only. |
141Currently supported on Windows only, in all contexts except for service workers. |
99Currently supported on ChromeOS, macOS, and Windows only. |
26 | 121 | No | 81 | 26 | 25.0 | 121 | 26 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GPUCanvasContext/canvas