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Prevent some elements from being rendered canvas


This is my website.

I want the background of my nav-element to be blurred... I used html2canvas and stackblur for this, and you can find the tutorial here.

My problem is now that I want to exclude the nav-element from being rendered in canvas, so it only shows the background when scrolling. Currently it’s only working in WebKit browsers, because I don’t know how to add multiple properties to:

"-webkit-transform",

This is my code:

<script>
    $(function () {
        html2canvas($("body"), {
            onrendered: function (canvas) {
                $("div.blurnav, div.blurnav.small").append(canvas);
                $("canvas").attr("id", "canvas");
                stackBlurCanvasRGB(
                    'canvas',
                    0,
                    0,
                    $("canvas").width(),
                    $("canvas").height(),
                    20);
                }
        });
        vv = setTimeout(function () {
            $("body").show();
            clearTimeout(vv);
        }, 200);
    });

    $(window).scroll(function () {
        $("canvas").css(
            "-webkit-transform",
            "translatey(-" + $(window).scrollTop() + "px)");
    });

    window.onresize = function () {
        $("canvas").width($(window).width());
    };

    $(document).bind('touchmove', function () {
        $("canvas").css(
            "-webkit-transform",
            "translatey(-" + $(window).scrollTop() + "px)");
    });

    $(document).bind('touchend', function () {
        $("canvas").css(
            "-webkit-transform",
            "translatey(-" + $(window).scrollTop() + "px)");
    });

</script>

Solution

  • I found this in html2canvas updates: Added support for "data-html2canvas-ignore" attribute

    For preventing render of a DOM element, you need add the data-html2canvas-ignore attribute in your element:

    var test = document.getElementById("test");
    var content = document.getElementById("content");
    
    test.onclick = function () {
        html2canvas(content, {
            "onrendered": function(canvas) {
                document.body.appendChild(canvas);
            }
        });
    };
    <script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html2canvas/0.4.1/html2canvas.min.js"></script>
    
    <p>
      <a id="test" href="javascript:void(0);">test</a>
    </p>
    
    <div id="content">
        <div class="element-1">1. Is visible</div>
        <div class="element-2" data-html2canvas-ignore="true">2. No visible</div>
        <div class="element-3">3. Is visible</div>
    </div>