Applying a Drop Shadow

Applying a drop shadow to an image, rectangle, text or any other element in an HTML5 Canvas is achieved using a few lines of javascript:

<body onload="drawCanvas();">
    <div>
        <canvas id="myCanvas" width="150" height="150">
            <p>Your browser doesn't support canvas.</p>
        </canvas>
    </div>
</body>

function drawCanvas() {
    // Get our Canvas element
    var surface = document.getElementById("myCanvas");

    if (surface.getContext) {
        // If Canvas is supported
        var context = surface.getContext('2d');

        context.shadowOffsetX = 4;
        context.shadowOffsetY = 4;
        context.shadowBlur = 5;
        context.shadowColor = "black";

        // Set the fill style to Red
        context.fillStyle = "rgb(255,0,0)";
        // Draw the rectangle 50x50 pixels in dimension at x/y 10,10
        context.fillRect(10, 10, 100, 100);
    }
}

Here we draw a solid Red rectangle using the fillRect() method that we've already covered in the Shapes and Fill Styles section.  The Drop Shadow is achieved by specifying the following properies:

context.shadowOffsetX = 4;
context.shadowOffsetY = 4;
context.shadowBlur = 5;
context.shadowColor = "black";

The shadowOffsetX and shadowOffsetY properties control the offset of the shadow from the rectangle whilst the shadowBlur property controls how sharp the shadow is.

A Solid Filled Rectangle witha Drop Shadow

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