HTML Canvas translate()
translate canvas context
<html> <head> <script> window.onload = function(){ var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas"); var context = canvas.getContext("2d"); // w w w.ja v a 2s . com var rectWidth = 150; var rectHeight = 75; // translate context to center of canvas context.translate(canvas.width / 2, canvas.height / 2); context.fillStyle = "blue"; context.fillRect(-rectWidth / 2, -rectHeight / 2, rectWidth, rectHeight); }; </script> </head> <body> <canvas id="myCanvas" width="600" height="250" style="border:1px solid black;"> </canvas> </body> </html>