From the course: Learning HTML Canvas
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Colors and styles
- [Instructor] In this chapter we'll learn about the basic canvas drawing operations. And we'll start with colors and styles. The canvas 2D drawing context provides some global properties that affect how objects are stroked and filled. The first is fill style which specifies the style to use when filling a shape. It can be set to a CSS color property or a gradient, or a pattern, and it defaults to black if you don't set it. Next is stroke style, and this is essentially the same as fill style except this is the color or a style that's used when strokes are drawn, usually lines or outlines of other objects. The line width property specifies the width of the drawing pen that the canvas uses when drawing lines, and that defaults to a width of one pixel. And you can see here some examples of the kinds of values you can set the style fields to. So I can use a named CSS color, or a hex value, or an RGB code. So essentially anything you can use for CSS, you can use in these properties. So…
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