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onClick={() => {
                  htmlToImage.toPng(this.diagramRef).then(function (dataUrl) {
                    var img = new Image();
                    img.src = dataUrl;
                    var link = document.createElement('a');
                    link.download = 'diagram.png';
                    link.href = dataUrl;
                    link.click();
                  })
                }}>
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html-to-image

✂️ Generates an image from a DOM node using HTML5 canvas and SVG.

Fork from dom-to-image with more maintainable code and some new features.

Install

npm install --save html-to-image

Usage

/* ES6 */
import * as htmlToImage from 'html-to-image';
import { toPng, toJpeg, toBlob, toPixelData, toSvg } from 'html-to-image';

/* ES5 */
var htmlToImage = require('html-to-image');

All the top level functions accept DOM node and rendering options, and return a promise fulfilled with corresponding dataURL:

• toPng
• toSvg
• toJpeg
• toBlob
• toCanvas
• toPixelData

Go with the following examples.

toPng

Get a PNG image base64-encoded data URL and display it right away:

var node = document.getElementById('my-node');

htmlToImage.toPng(node)
  .then(function (dataUrl) {
    var img = new Image();
    img.src = dataUrl;
    document.body.appendChild(img);
  })
  .catch(function (error) {
    console.error('oops, something went wrong!', error);
  });

Get a PNG image base64-encoded data URL and download it (using download):

htmlToImage.toPng(document.getElementById('my-node'))
  .then(function (dataUrl) {
    download(dataUrl, 'my-node.png');
  });

toSvg

Get an SVG data URL, but filter out all the <i> elements:

function filter (node) {
  return (node.tagName !== 'i');
}

htmlToImage.toSvg(document.getElementById('my-node'), { filter: filter })
  .then(function (dataUrl) {
    /* do something */
  });

toJpeg

Save and download a compressed JPEG image:

htmlToImage.toJpeg(document.getElementById('my-node'), { quality: 0.95 })
  .then(function (dataUrl) {
    var link = document.createElement('a');
    link.download = 'my-image-name.jpeg';
    link.href = dataUrl;
    link.click();
  });

toBlob

Get a PNG image blob and download it (using FileSaver):

htmlToImage.toBlob(document.getElementById('my-node'))
  .then(function (blob) {
    if (window.saveAs) {
      window.saveAs(blob, 'my-node.png');
    } else {
     FileSaver.saveAs(blob, 'my-node.png');
   }
  });

toCanvas

Get a HTMLCanvasElement, and display it right away:

htmlToImage.toCanvas(document.getElementById('my-node'))
  .then(function (canvas) {
    document.body.appendChild(canvas);
  });

toPixelData

Get the raw pixel data as a Uint8Array with every 4 array elements representing the RGBA data of a pixel:

var node = document.getElementById('my-node');

htmlToImage.toPixelData(node)
  .then(function (pixels) {
    for (var y = 0; y < node.scrollHeight; ++y) {
      for (var x = 0; x < node.scrollWidth; ++x) {
        pixelAtXYOffset = (4 * y * node.scrollHeight) + (4 * x);
        /* pixelAtXY is a Uint8Array[4] containing RGBA values of the pixel at (x, y) in the range 0..255 */
        pixelAtXY = pixels.slice(pixelAtXYOffset, pixelAtXYOffset + 4);
      }
    }
  });

React

import React, { useCallback, useRef } from 'react';
import { toPng } from 'html-to-image';

const App: React.FC = () => {
  const ref = useRef(null)

  const onButtonClick = useCallback(() => {
    if (ref.current === null) {
      return
    }

    toPng(ref.current, { cacheBust: true, })
      .then((dataUrl) => {
        const link = document.createElement('a')
        link.download = 'my-image-name.png'
        link.href = dataUrl
        link.click()
      })
      .catch((err) => {
        console.log(err)
      })
  }, [ref])

  return (
    <>
      <div>
      {/* DOM nodes you want to convert to PNG */}
      </div>
      <button>Click me</button>
    
  )
}

Options

filter

(domNode: HTMLElement) => boolean

A function taking DOM node as argument. Should return true if passed node should be included in the output. Excluding node means excluding it's children as well.

You can add filter to every image function. For example,

const filter = (node: HTMLElement) => {
  const exclusionClasses = ['remove-me', 'secret-div'];
  return !exclusionClasses.some((classname) => node.classList?.contains(classname));
}

htmlToImage.toJpeg(node, { quality: 0.95, filter: filter});

or

htmlToImage.toPng(node, {filter:filter})

Not called on the root node.

backgroundColor

A string value for the background color, any valid CSS color value.

width, height

Width and height in pixels to be applied to node before rendering.

canvasWidth, canvasHeight

Allows to scale the canva's size including the elements inside to a given width and height (in pixels).

style

An object whose properties to be copied to node's style before rendering. You might want to check this reference for JavaScript names of CSS properties.

quality

A number between 0 and 1 indicating image quality (e.g. 0.92 => 92%) of the JPEG image.

Defaults to 1.0 (100%)

cacheBust

Set to true to append the current time as a query string to URL requests to enable cache busting.

Defaults to false

includeQueryParams

Set false to use all URL as cache key. If the value has falsy value, it will exclude query params from the provided URL.

Defaults to false

imagePlaceholder

A data URL for a placeholder image that will be used when fetching an image fails.

Defaults to an empty string and will render empty areas for failed images.

pixelRatio

The pixel ratio of the captured image. Default use the actual pixel ratio of the device. Set 1 to use as initial-scale 1 for the image.

preferredFontFormat

The format required for font embedding. This is a useful optimisation when a webfont provider specifies several different formats for fonts in the CSS, for example:

@font-face {
  name: 'proxima-nova';
  src: url("...") format("woff2"), url("...") format("woff"), url("...") format("opentype");
}

Instead of embedding each format, all formats other than the one specified will be discarded. If this option is not specified then all formats will be downloaded and embedded.

fontEmbedCSS

When supplied, the library will skip the process of parsing and embedding webfont URLs in CSS, instead using this value. This is useful when combined with getFontEmbedCSS() to only perform the embedding process a single time across multiple calls to library functions.

const fontEmbedCss = await htmlToImage.getFontEmbedCSS(element1);
html2Image.toSVG(element1, { fontEmbedCss });
html2Image.toSVG(element2, { fontEmbedCss });

skipAutoScale

When supplied, the library will skip the process of scaling extra large doms into the canvas object. You may experience loss of parts of the image if set to true and you are exporting a very large image.

Defaults to false

type

A string indicating the image format. The default type is image/png; that type is also used if the given type isn't supported. When supplied, the toCanvas function will return a blob matching the given image type and quality.

Defaults to image/png

Browsers

Only standard lib is currently used, but make sure your browser supports:

• Promise
• SVG `