How to create a canvas with progress cursor on hover over objects using FabricJS?


In this article, we are going to create a canvas with a progress cursor on hover using FabricJS. progress is one of the native cursor style available which can be used in the FabricJS canvas too.

FabricJS provides various types of cursors such as default, all-scroll, crosshair, col-resize, row-resize, etc. that reuse the native cursor under the hood. The hoverCursor property sets the style of the cursor when hovered over a canvas object

Syntax

new fabric.Canvas(element: HTMLElement|String, { hoverCursor: String }: Object)

Parameters

  • element − This parameter is the <canvas> element itself which can be derived using document.getElementById() or the id of the <canvas> element itself. The FabricJS canvas will be initialized on this element.

  • options (optional) − This parameter is an Object which provides additional customizations to our canvas. Using this parameter, properties such as color, cursor, border width, and a lot of other properties can be changed related to the canvas, of which hoverCursor is a property with which we can set the default cursor value when hovering over an object on the canvas.

Example 1

Passing the hoverCursor key to the class

The hoverCursor property accepts a String which determines the name of the cursor to be used on hovering over the canvas object. Let's see a code example to create a canvas with a progress cursor on hover in FabricJS.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <!-- Adding the Fabric JS Library-->
   <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fabric.js/510/fabric.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
   <h2>Canvas with progress cursor on hover over objects using FabricJS</h2>
   <p>Hover the mouse over the circle to see how the cursor style changes.</p>
   <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
   <script>
      // Initiate a canvas instance
      var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas", {
         hoverCursor: "progress",
      });
      // Creating an instance of the fabric.Circle class
      var cir = new fabric.Circle({
         radius: 60,
         fill: "#ffc87c",
         left: 30,
         top: 20,
      });
      // Adding it to the canvas
      canvas.add(cir);
      canvas.setWidth(document.body.scrollWidth);
      canvas.setHeight(250);
   </script>
</body>
</html>

Example 2

Setting the hoverCursor using the dot notation

In this example, we have a circle object and a rectangle object and by assigning hoverCursor the value "progress", when we hover over any object in the canvas, our cursor will change into the progress cursor type.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <!-- Adding the Fabric JS Library-->
   <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fabric.js/510/fabric.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
   <h2>Canvas with progress cursor on hover over objects using FabricJS</h2>
   <p>Hover the mouse over the objects to see how the cursor style changes.</p>
   <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
   <script>
      // Initiate a canvas instance
      var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas");
      canvas.hoverCursor = "progress";
      // Creating an instance of the fabric.Circle class
      var cir = new fabric.Circle({
         radius: 50,
         fill: "#9ab973",
         left: 30,
         top: 20,
      });
      // Creating an instance of the fabric.Rect class
      var rect = new fabric.Rect({
         left: 170,
         top: 150,
         width: 60,
         height: 80,
         fill: "#4682b4",
         angle: 90,
      });
      // Adding it to the canvas
      canvas.add(cir);
      canvas.add(rect);
      canvas.setWidth(document.body.scrollWidth);
      canvas.setHeight(250);
   </script>
</body>
</html>

Updated on: 19-May-2022

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