I'm trying to scale an image proportionately to the canvas. I'm able to scale it with fixed width and height as so:

context.drawImage(imageObj, 0, 0, 100, 100)

But I only want to resize the width and have the height resize proportionately. Something like the following:

context.drawImage(imageObj, 0, 0, 100, auto)

I've looked everywhere I can think of and haven't seen if this is possible.


context.drawImage(imageObj, 0, 0, 100, 100 * imageObj.height / imageObj.width)

@TechMaze's solution is quite good.

Here is the code after some corrections and the introduction of the image.onload event. image.onload is essential in order to avoid any kind of distortion.

function draw_canvas_image() {

  var canvas = document.getElementById("image-holder-canvas");
  var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
  var imageObj = document.getElementById("myImageToDisplayOnCanvas");

  imageObj.onload = function() {
    var imgWidth = imageObj.naturalWidth;
    var screenWidth  = canvas.width;
    var scaleX = 1;
    if (imgWidth > screenWidth)
        scaleX = screenWidth/imgWidth;
    var imgHeight = imageObj.naturalHeight;
    var screenHeight = canvas.height;
    var scaleY = 1;
    if (imgHeight > screenHeight)
        scaleY = screenHeight/imgHeight;
    var scale = scaleY;
    if(scaleX < scaleY)
        scale = scaleX;
    if(scale < 1){
        imgHeight = imgHeight*scale;
        imgWidth = imgWidth*scale;          
    }

    canvas.height = imgHeight;
    canvas.width = imgWidth;

    context.drawImage(imageObj, 0, 0, imageObj.naturalWidth, imageObj.naturalHeight, 0,0, imgWidth, imgHeight);
  }
}