The Observable standard library.

For examples, see https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/stdlib.

API Reference

• DOM - create HTML and SVG elements.
• Files - read local files into memory.
• FileAttachments - read remote files.
• Generators - utilities for generators and iterators.
• Promises - utilities for promises.
• require - load third-party libraries.
• html - render HTML.
• md - render Markdown.
• svg - render SVG.
• tex - render LaTeX.
• now - the current value of Date.now.
• width - the current page width.
• invalidation - dispose resources.
• visibility - wait for visibility.

DOM

# DOM.canvas(width, height) <>

Returns a new canvas element with the specified width and height. For example, to create a 960×500 canvas:

DOM.canvas(960, 500)

This is equivalent to using the html tagged template literal: