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I have a fairly simple test, a 400 x 400 white image with text on it saying "1" over and over again.

I draw it on a fairly simple 1000 x 1000 canvas, trying to resize it to 100 x 100.

var image = new Image();

document.body.appendChild(image);



image.addEventListener("load",function (event) {

    var image1 = event.target;

    var tempCanvas = window.document.createElement("canvas");



    tempCanvas.style.width = "1000px";

    tempCanvas.style.height = "1000px";

    tempCanvas.style.background = "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)";



    document.body.appendChild(tempCanvas);



    tempCanvas.getContext("2d").drawImage(image1, 0, 0, 100, 100);

});



image.src = "1.png";

But despite all that being squares, I end up with an odd-looking, deformed, weirdly scaled result that's rectangular, low quality, and without having any of its dimensions being 100px.

On the left, you can see the original image, on the right, that's the top left corner of my canvas.

If you want the original image, here it is: https://i.stack.imgur.com/yDkLx.png

What am I missing?

Try setting the width and height values on the canvas element prior to the drawImage(), rather than relying on the styles as you are.

Setting the width and height attributes corresponds to setting the dimensions of that canvas element.

Once you've defined the dimensions of a canvas element, the rendering behavior of the canvas becomes much more predicatable:

var image = new Image();

document.body.appendChild(image);



image.addEventListener("load",function (event) {

    var image1 = event.target;

    var tempCanvas = window.document.createElement("canvas");



    //tempCanvas.style.width = "400px";

    //tempCanvas.style.height = "400px";

    tempCanvas.style.background = "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)";



    tempCanvas.width = 100;

    tempCanvas.height = 100;



    document.body.appendChild(tempCanvas);



    tempCanvas.getContext("2d").drawImage(image1, 0, 0, 100, 100);

});



image.src = "https://puu.sh/C4HE2/d96b531d08.png";

canvas {

  border:1px solid blue;

}



img {

  border:1px solid red;

}

The code snippet above shows the original source image with red border, and the down-scaled canvas rendered image with blue border - hope this helps!