How to flip a Rectangle vertically using FabricJS?


In this tutorial, we are going to learn how we can flip a Rectangle object vertically using FabricJS. Rectangle is one of the various shapes provided by FabricJS. In order to create a rectangle, we will have to create an instance of fabric.Rect class and add it to the canvas. We can flip a rectangle object vertically using the flipY property.

Syntax

new fabric.Rect({ flipY: Boolean }: Object)

Parameters

  • Options (optional) − This parameter is an Object which provides additional customizations to our rectangle. Using this parameter, properties such as colour, cursor, stroke width and a lot of other properties can be changed related to the object of which flipY is a property.

Options Keys

  • flipY − This property accepts a Boolean value which allows us to flip an object vertically.

Example 1

Passing flipY as key with a False value

Let’s see a code example that shows us the default orientation of a rectangle object in FabricJS. Since we are passing the flipY property a False value, the rectangle object will not be flipped vertically.

<!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>Passing flipY as key with a False value</h2>
   <p>You can see that the object has not flipped vertically.</p>
   <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
   <script>
      // Initiate a canvas instance
      var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas");
      canvas.setWidth(document.body.scrollWidth);
      canvas.setHeight(250);

      // Initiate a rectangle object
      var rect = new fabric.Rect({
         left: 125,
         top: 90,
         width: 170,
         height: 70,
         borderColor: "purple",
         borderScaleFactor: 3,
         flipY: false,
      });

      // Create gradient fill
      rect.set(
         "fill",
         new fabric.Gradient({
            type: "linear",
            coords: { x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 50 },
            colorStops: [
               { offset: 0, color: "pink" },
               { offset: 1, color: "blue" },
            ],
         })
      );

      // Add it to the canvas
      canvas.add(rect);
   </script>
</body>
</html>

Example 2

Passing the flipY property as key with a ‘true’ value

In this example, we have a rectangle object of width 170 px and height 70 px with a vertical linear gradient fill. As we apply the flipY property to the rectangle object, it flips vertically and thus we see that the gradient has flipped as well.

<!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>Passing the flipY property as key with a True value</h2>
   <p>You can see now that the object has flipped vertically.</p>
   <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
   <script>
      // Initiate a canvas instance
      var canvas = new fabric.Canvas("canvas");
      canvas.setWidth(document.body.scrollWidth);
      canvas.setHeight(250);

      // Initiate a rectangle object
      var rect = new fabric.Rect({
         left: 125,
         top: 90,
         width: 170,
         height: 70,
         borderColor: "purple",
         borderScaleFactor: 3,
         flipY: true,
      });

      // Create gradient fill
      rect.set(
         "fill",
         new fabric.Gradient({
            type: "linear",
            coords: { x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 50 },
            colorStops: [
               { offset: 0, color: "pink" },
               { offset: 1, color: "blue" },
            ],
         })
      );

      // Add it to the canvas
      canvas.add(rect);
   </script>
</body>
</html>

Updated on: 29-Jun-2022

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