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HTML5: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development
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HTML5: 20 Lessons to Successful Web Development

by Robin Nixon
January 2015
Beginner
280 pages
6h 48m
English
McGraw-Hill
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Drawing Lines, Paths, and Curves

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         To view the accompanying video for this lesson, please visit mhprofessional.com/nixonhtml5/.

In this lesson I’ll be showing you how you can customize all the functions that draw using lines, such as strokeRect() and strokeText() (which you’ve already seen), as well as the line-drawing functions, and how to use paths to create complicated patterns and curves. All example files used in this (and every other) lesson can be downloaded from 20lessons.com.

Drawing Lines

The HTML5 canvas supports line drawing ...

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