Canvas clear on resize not mentioned

[Rudxain]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/width

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

1st (main)

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

A side-effect of assigning a value to that property

What did you expect to see?

It's missing the fact that some (all?) browsers clear when changing in-memory dimensions.

This may include h (not tested)

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5517783/preventing-canvas-clear-when-resizing-window

Do you have anything more you want to share?

This technique for preserving content after resizing, which is very helpful as a tutorial

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• Folder: en-us/web/api/htmlcanvaselement/width
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/width
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/api/htmlcanvaselement/width/index.md
• Last commit: d8a5256
• Document last modified: 2024-02-06T08:10:10.000Z