How to take screenshot of a div with JavaScript?

I am building something called the "HTML Quiz". It's completely ran on JavaScript and it's pretty cool.

At the end, a results box pops up that says "Your Results:" and it shows how much time they took, what percentage they got, and how many questions they got right out of 10. I would like to have a button that says "Capture results" and have it somehow take a screenshot or something of the div, and then just show the image captured on the page where they can right click and "Save image as."

I really would love to do this so they can share their results with others. I don't want them to "copy" the results because they can easily change that. If they change what it says in the image, oh well.

Does anyone know a way to do this or something similar?

Solution 1:

No, I don't know of a way to 'screenshot' an element, but what you could do, is draw the quiz results into a canvas element, then use the HTMLCanvasElement object's toDataURL function to get a data: URI with the image's contents.

When the quiz is finished, do this:

var c = document.getElementById('the_canvas_element_id');
var t = c.getContext('2d');
/* then use the canvas 2D drawing functions to add text, etc. for the result */

When the user clicks "Capture", do this:

window.open('', document.getElementById('the_canvas_element_id').toDataURL());

This will open a new tab or window with the 'screenshot', allowing the user to save it. There is no way to invoke a 'save as' dialog of sorts, so this is the best you can do in my opinion.

Solution 2:

This is an expansion of @Dathan's answer, using html2canvas and FileSaver.js.

$(function() { 
    $("#btnSave").click(function() { 
        html2canvas($("#widget"), {
            onrendered: function(canvas) {
                theCanvas = canvas;


                canvas.toBlob(function(blob) {
                    saveAs(blob, "Dashboard.png"); 
                });
            }
        });
    });
});

This code block waits for the button with the id btnSave to be clicked. When it is, it converts the widget div to a canvas element and then uses the saveAs() FileSaver interface (via FileSaver.js in browsers that don't support it natively) to save the div as an image named "Dashboard.png".

An example of this working is available at this fiddle.

Solution 3:

After hours of research, I finally found a solution to take a screenshot of an element, even if the origin-clean FLAG is set (to prevent XSS), that´s why you can even capture for example Google Maps (in my case). I wrote a universal function to get a screenshot. The only thing you need in addition is the html2canvas library (https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/).

Example:

getScreenshotOfElement($("div#toBeCaptured").get(0), 0, 0, 100, 100, function(data) {
    // in the data variable there is the base64 image
    // exmaple for displaying the image in an <img>
    $("img#captured").attr("src", "data:image/png;base64,"+data);
});

Keep in mind console.log() and alert() won´t generate output if the size of the image is great.

Function:

function getScreenshotOfElement(element, posX, posY, width, height, callback) {
    html2canvas(element, {
        onrendered: function (canvas) {
            var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
            var imageData = context.getImageData(posX, posY, width, height).data;
            var outputCanvas = document.createElement('canvas');
            var outputContext = outputCanvas.getContext('2d');
            outputCanvas.width = width;
            outputCanvas.height = height;

            var idata = outputContext.createImageData(width, height);
            idata.data.set(imageData);
            outputContext.putImageData(idata, 0, 0);
            callback(outputCanvas.toDataURL().replace("data:image/png;base64,", ""));
        },
        width: width,
        height: height,
        useCORS: true,
        taintTest: false,
        allowTaint: false
    });
}