Can I draw a table in canvas element?

Question

Is there any way (plugins, working solutions, etc.) to draw a HTML table into a <canvas> element?

I have a rich-formatted html table (using CSS), and I want to save it as image (PNG, SVG or GIF) using jQuery. ...or if there any simpliest way, I'm listening it.

Answer 1

Working DEMO

Sure, it is possible. You can draw DOM objects into a canvas. Here is the code you need:

<p><canvas id="canvas" style="border:2px solid black;" width="200" height="200"></canvas>
<script>
var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
var data = "<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' width='200' height='200'>" +
             "<foreignObject width='100%' height='100%'>" +
               "<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' style='font-size:40px'>" +
                  "<table border='1'><tr><td>row 1, cell 1</td><td>row 1, cell 2</td></tr><tr><td>row 2, cell 1</td><td>row 2, cell 2</td></tr></table>" +
               "</div>" +
             "</foreignObject>" +
           "</svg>";

var DOMURL = self.URL || self.webkitURL || self;
var img = new Image();
var svg = new Blob([data], {type: "image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8"});
var url = DOMURL.createObjectURL(svg);
img.onload = function() {
    ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
    DOMURL.revokeObjectURL(url);
};
img.src = url;
</script>​

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