背景
今天在博问中看到一个问题：用canvas 的 lineto方法画对角线，但画出来的图形不对？
这是一个很常见的误区，这里给大家细说一下。
原理
在w3网站上是这样解释的：
The
canvaselement has two attributes to control the size of the coordinate space:widthandheight. These attributes, when specified, must have values that are valid non-negative integers. The rules for parsing non-negative integers must be used to obtain their numeric values. If an attribute is missing, or if parsing its value returns an error, then the default value must be used instead. Thewidthattribute defaults to 300, and theheightattribute defaults to 150.The intrinsic dimensions of the
canvaselement equal the size of the coordinate space, with the numbers interpreted in CSS pixels. However, the element can be sized arbitrarily by a style sheet. During rendering, the image is scaled to fit this layout size.
其实这里已经说的很明白，通俗点说就是在canvas中定义width、height跟在style中定义width和height是不同的，canvas标签的width和height是画布实际宽度和高度，绘制的图形都是在这个上面。而style的width和height是canvas在浏览器中被渲染的高度和宽度。如果canvas的width和height没指定或值不正确，就被设置成默认值(300px，height:150px)。
我们可以利用style的width和height来缩放canvas，请看下面的示例。
示例
示例代码如下：
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Demo</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript">
function drawDiagonal(id){
var canvas=document.getElementById(id);
var context=canvas.getContext("2d");
context.beginPath();
context.moveTo(0,0);
context.lineTo(100,100);
context.stroke();
}
window.onload=function(){
drawDiagonal("diagonal1");
drawDiagonal("diagonal2");
drawDiagonal("diagonal3");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="diagonal1" style="border:1px solid;" width="100px" height="100px"></canvas>
<canvas id="diagonal2" style="border:1px solid;200px;height:200px;" width="100px" height="100px"></canvas>
<canvas id="diagonal3" style="border:1px solid;200px;height:200px;"></canvas>
</body>
</html>
