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117 changes: 117 additions & 0 deletions docs/docs/configuration/canvas-background.mdx
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---
title: Canvas background
---

In some use cases you would want a background image or color over the whole canvas. There is no build in support for this, the way you can achieve this is by writing a custom plugin.

In the two example plugins underneath here you can see how you can draw an color or image to the canvas as background. This way of giving the chart a background is only necessary if you want to export the chart with that specific background.
For normal use you can set the background more easily with [CSS](https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background.asp).

import { useEffect, useRef } from 'react';
import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';

<Tabs
defaultValue='color'
values={[
{label: 'Color', value: 'color' },
{label: 'Image', value: 'image' },
]}
>
<TabItem value="color">

```jsx live
function example() {
const canvas = useRef(null);
useEffect(() => {
const cfg = {
type: 'doughnut',
data: {
labels: [
'Red',
'Blue',
'Yellow'
],
datasets: [{
label: 'My First Dataset',
data: [300, 50, 100],
backgroundColor: [
'rgb(255, 99, 132)',
'rgb(54, 162, 235)',
'rgb(255, 205, 86)'
],
hoverOffset: 4
}]
},
plugins: [{
id: 'custom_canvas_background_color',
beforeDraw: (chart) => {
const ctx = chart.canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.save();
ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'destination-over';
ctx.fillStyle = 'lightGreen';
ctx.fillRect(0, 0, chart.canvas.width, chart.canvas.height);
ctx.restore();
}
}]
};
const chart = new Chart(canvas.current.getContext('2d'), cfg);
return () => chart.destroy();
});
return <div className="chartjs-wrapper"><canvas ref={canvas} className="chartjs"></canvas></div>;
}
```

</TabItem>

<TabItem value="image">

```jsx live
function example() {
const canvas = useRef(null);

useEffect(() => {
const image = new Image();
image.src = "https://www.chartjs.org/img/chartjs-logo.svg";
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const cfg = {
type: 'doughnut',
data: {
labels: [
'Red',
'Blue',
'Yellow'
],
datasets: [{
label: 'My First Dataset',
data: [300, 50, 100],
backgroundColor: [
'rgb(255, 99, 132)',
'rgb(54, 162, 235)',
'rgb(255, 205, 86)'
],
hoverOffset: 4
}]
},
plugins: [{
id: 'custom_canvas_background_image',
beforeDraw: (chart) => {
if (image.complete) {
const ctx = chart.canvas.getContext('2d');
ctx.drawImage(image, chart.canvas.width/2-image.width/2, chart.canvas.height/2-image.height/2);
}
}
}]
};

const chart = new Chart(canvas.current.getContext('2d'), cfg);
image.onload = () => chart.draw();

return () => chart.destroy();
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});
return <div className="chartjs-wrapper"><canvas ref={canvas} className="chartjs"></canvas></div>;
}
```

</TabItem>
</Tabs>
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'configuration/device-pixel-ratio',
'configuration/locale',
{Interactions: ['configuration/interactions/index', 'configuration/interactions/events', 'configuration/interactions/modes']},
'configuration/canvas-background',
'configuration/animations',
'configuration/layout',
'configuration/legend',
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