Why to use canvas tag in HTML5?

Specifies height of the canvas.The HTML tag is used to draw graphics, animations, etc. using scripting. The tag introduced in HTML5.

Let’s see a simple element with two specific attributes width and height along with all the core HTML5 attributes like id, name, and class etc.

Here are the attributes −

Attribute	Value	Description
height	pixels	Specifies height of the canvas.
width	pixels	Specifies width of the canvas.

Example

You can try to run the following code to learn how to use canvas to create a rectangle. The canvas element has a DOM method called getContext, which obtains rendering context and its drawing functions. This function takes one parameter, the type of context 2d.