The HTML5 <canvas> tag is important in enabling on the spot drawing of graphics. It is important though to use scripting, like JavaScript, to be able to utilize the function. The HTML5 <canvas> tag is necessary primarily for containing the graphics. However, the actual drawing of the graphics should be done with the use of script.

The <canvas> tag is newly introduced for HTML5 so this is not found in HTML4.01.

Using the HTML5 <canvas> tag is not really a problem since this is supported by all major web browsers these days such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera and Firefox. In cases wherein the HTML5 <canvas> tag is not supported by the web browser, all texts inside the <canvas> element are shown.

The <canvas> tag is capable of working along with both the Event Attributes and Global Attribute in HTML5. Attributes for the HTML5 <canvas> tag are the following:

It has to be noted that these attributes are new since the HTML5 <canvas> tag is not utilized for HTML4.01.