This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The imageSmoothingQuality
property of the CanvasRenderingContext2D
interface, part of the Canvas API, lets you set the quality of image smoothing.
Note: For this property to have an effect, imageSmoothingEnabled
must be true
.
Syntax
ctx.imageSmoothingQuality = "low" || "medium" || "high"
Options
Possible values:
"low"
- Low quality.
"medium"
- Medium quality.
"high"
- High quality.
Example
Setting image smoothing quality
This example uses the imageSmoothingQuality
property with a scaled image.
HTML
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
JavaScript
const canvas = document.getElementById('canvas'); const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d'); let img = new Image(); img.src = 'https://mdn.mozillademos.org/files/222/Canvas_createpattern.png'; img.onload = function() { ctx.imageSmoothingQuality = 'low'; ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0, 300, 150); };
Result
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
HTML Living Standard The definition of 'imageSmoothingQuality' in that specification. |
Living Standard | Initial definition. |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
imageSmoothingQuality | Chrome Full support 54 | Edge Full support ≤79 | Firefox No support No | IE ? | Opera Full support 41 | Safari Full support Yes | WebView Android Full support 54 | Chrome Android Full support 54 | Firefox Android No support No | Opera Android Full support 41 | Safari iOS Full support Yes | Samsung Internet Android Full support 6.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Compatibility unknown
- Compatibility unknown
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
See also
- The interface defining this property:
CanvasRenderingContext2D
CanvasRenderingContext2D.imageSmoothingEnabled
image-rendering