diff --git a/src/Bounds.js b/src/Bounds.js
index 5bab812..25f81e2 100644
--- a/src/Bounds.js
+++ b/src/Bounds.js
@@ -49,10 +49,8 @@ export const parseBounds = (node: HTMLElement, isTransformed: boolean): Bounds =
 };
 
 const offsetBounds = (node: HTMLElement): Bounds => {
-    const parent =
-        node.offsetParent instanceof HTMLElement
-            ? offsetBounds(node.offsetParent)
-            : {top: 0, left: 0};
+    // //$FlowFixMe
+    const parent = node.offsetParent ? offsetBounds(node.offsetParent) : {top: 0, left: 0};
 
     return new Bounds(
         node.offsetLeft + parent.left,
diff --git a/src/Clone.js b/src/Clone.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1d0d3d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Clone.js
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+/* @flow */
+'use strict';
+import type {Bounds} from './Bounds';
+import type {Options} from './index';
+
+const restoreOwnerScroll = (ownerDocument: Document, x: number, y: number) => {
+    if (
+        ownerDocument.defaultView &&
+        (x !== ownerDocument.defaultView.pageXOffset || y !== ownerDocument.defaultView.pageYOffset)
+    ) {
+        ownerDocument.defaultView.scrollTo(x, y);
+    }
+};
+
+const cloneCanvasContents = (canvas: HTMLCanvasElement, clonedCanvas: HTMLCanvasElement) => {
+    try {
+        if (clonedCanvas) {
+            clonedCanvas.width = canvas.width;
+            clonedCanvas.height = canvas.height;
+            clonedCanvas
+                .getContext('2d')
+                .putImageData(
+                    canvas.getContext('2d').getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height),
+                    0,
+                    0
+                );
+        }
+    } catch (e) {}
+};
+
+const cloneNode = (
+    node: Node,
+    referenceElement: [HTMLElement, ?HTMLElement],
+    scrolledElements: Array<[HTMLElement, number, number]>
+) => {
+    const clone =
+        node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE
+            ? document.createTextNode(node.nodeValue)
+            : node.cloneNode(false);
+
+    if (referenceElement[0] === node && clone instanceof HTMLElement) {
+        referenceElement[1] = clone;
+    }
+
+    for (let child = node.firstChild; child; child = child.nextSibling) {
+        if (child.nodeType !== Node.ELEMENT_NODE || child.nodeName !== 'SCRIPT') {
+            clone.appendChild(cloneNode(child, referenceElement, scrolledElements));
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (node instanceof HTMLElement) {
+        if (node.scrollTop !== 0 || node.scrollLeft !== 0) {
+            scrolledElements.push([node, node.scrollLeft, node.scrollTop]);
+        }
+        switch (node.nodeName) {
+            case 'CANVAS':
+                // $FlowFixMe
+                cloneCanvasContents(node, clone);
+                break;
+            case 'TEXTAREA':
+            case 'SELECT':
+                // $FlowFixMe
+                clone.value = node.value;
+                break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return clone;
+};
+
+const initNode = ([element, x, y]: [HTMLElement, number, number]) => {
+    element.scrollLeft = x;
+    element.scrollTop = y;
+};
+
+export const cloneWindow = (
+    documentToBeCloned: Document,
+    ownerDocument: Document,
+    bounds: Bounds,
+    referenceElement: HTMLElement,
+    options: Options
+): Promise<[HTMLIFrameElement, HTMLElement]> => {
+    const scrolledElements = [];
+    const referenceElementSearch = [referenceElement, null];
+    if (!(documentToBeCloned.documentElement instanceof HTMLElement)) {
+        return Promise.reject(__DEV__ ? `Invalid document provided for cloning` : '');
+    }
+
+    const documentElement = cloneNode(
+        documentToBeCloned.documentElement,
+        referenceElementSearch,
+        scrolledElements
+    );
+
+    const cloneIframeContainer = ownerDocument.createElement('iframe');
+
+    cloneIframeContainer.className = 'html2canvas-container';
+    cloneIframeContainer.style.visibility = 'hidden';
+    cloneIframeContainer.style.position = 'fixed';
+    cloneIframeContainer.style.left = '-10000px';
+    cloneIframeContainer.style.top = '0px';
+    cloneIframeContainer.style.border = '0';
+    cloneIframeContainer.width = bounds.width.toString();
+    cloneIframeContainer.height = bounds.height.toString();
+    cloneIframeContainer.scrolling = 'no'; // ios won't scroll without it
+    if (ownerDocument.body) {
+        ownerDocument.body.appendChild(cloneIframeContainer);
+    } else {
+        return Promise.reject(
+            __DEV__ ? `Body element not found in Document that is getting rendered` : ''
+        );
+    }
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        const documentClone = cloneIframeContainer.contentWindow.document;
+
+        /* Chrome doesn't detect relative background-images assigned in inline <style> sheets when fetched through getComputedStyle
+         if window url is about:blank, we can assign the url to current by writing onto the document
+         */
+        cloneIframeContainer.contentWindow.onload = cloneIframeContainer.onload = () => {
+            console.log('iframe load');
+            const interval = setInterval(() => {
+                if (documentClone.body.childNodes.length > 0) {
+                    scrolledElements.forEach(initNode);
+                    clearInterval(interval);
+                    if (options.type === 'view') {
+                        cloneIframeContainer.contentWindow.scrollTo(bounds.left, bounds.top);
+                        if (
+                            /(iPad|iPhone|iPod)/g.test(navigator.userAgent) &&
+                            (cloneIframeContainer.contentWindow.scrollY !== bounds.top ||
+                                cloneIframeContainer.contentWindow.scrollX !== bounds.left)
+                        ) {
+                            documentClone.documentElement.style.top = -bounds.top + 'px';
+                            documentClone.documentElement.style.left = -bounds.left + 'px';
+                            documentClone.documentElement.style.position = 'absolute';
+                        }
+                    }
+                    if (referenceElementSearch[1] instanceof HTMLElement) {
+                        resolve([cloneIframeContainer, referenceElementSearch[1]]);
+                    } else {
+                        reject(
+                            __DEV__
+                                ? `Error finding the ${referenceElement.nodeName} in the cloned document`
+                                : ''
+                        );
+                    }
+                }
+            }, 50);
+        };
+
+        documentClone.open();
+        documentClone.write('<!DOCTYPE html><html></html>');
+        // Chrome scrolls the parent document for some reason after the write to the cloned window???
+        restoreOwnerScroll(documentToBeCloned, bounds.left, bounds.top);
+        documentClone.replaceChild(
+            documentClone.adoptNode(documentElement),
+            documentClone.documentElement
+        );
+        documentClone.close();
+    });
+};
diff --git a/src/NodeContainer.js b/src/NodeContainer.js
index 6ae84fa..83773f6 100644
--- a/src/NodeContainer.js
+++ b/src/NodeContainer.js
@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ export default class NodeContainer {
             transform: parseTransform(style),
             zIndex: parseZIndex(style.zIndex)
         };
+
         this.image =
-            node instanceof HTMLImageElement
-                ? imageLoader.loadImage(node.currentSrc || node.src)
-                : null;
+            // $FlowFixMe
+            node.tagName === 'IMG' ? imageLoader.loadImage(node.currentSrc || node.src) : null;
         this.bounds = parseBounds(node, this.isTransformed());
         if (__DEV__) {
             this.name = `${node.tagName.toLowerCase()}${node.id
diff --git a/src/NodeParser.js b/src/NodeParser.js
index 16c5faf..6079264 100644
--- a/src/NodeParser.js
+++ b/src/NodeParser.js
@@ -36,17 +36,20 @@ const parseNodeTree = (
     imageLoader: ImageLoader
 ): void => {
     node.childNodes.forEach((childNode: Node) => {
-        if (childNode instanceof Text) {
+        if (childNode.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) {
+            //$FlowFixMe
             if (childNode.data.trim().length > 0) {
+                //$FlowFixMe
                 parent.textNodes.push(new TextContainer(childNode, parent));
             }
-        } else if (childNode instanceof HTMLElement) {
+        } else if (childNode.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
             if (IGNORED_NODE_NAMES.indexOf(childNode.nodeName) === -1) {
-                const container = new NodeContainer(childNode, parent, imageLoader);
+                const childElement = flowRefineToHTMLElement(childNode);
+                const container = new NodeContainer(childElement, parent, imageLoader);
                 if (container.isVisible()) {
                     const treatAsRealStackingContext = createsRealStackingContext(
                         container,
-                        childNode
+                        childElement
                     );
                     if (treatAsRealStackingContext || createsStackingContext(container)) {
                         // for treatAsRealStackingContext:false, any positioned descendants and descendants
@@ -61,10 +64,10 @@ const parseNodeTree = (
                             treatAsRealStackingContext
                         );
                         parentStack.contexts.push(childStack);
-                        parseNodeTree(childNode, container, childStack, imageLoader);
+                        parseNodeTree(childElement, container, childStack, imageLoader);
                     } else {
                         stack.children.push(container);
-                        parseNodeTree(childNode, container, stack, imageLoader);
+                        parseNodeTree(childElement, container, stack, imageLoader);
                     }
                 }
             }
@@ -93,3 +96,6 @@ const isBodyWithTransparentRoot = (container: NodeContainer, node: HTMLElement):
         container.parent.style.background.backgroundColor.isTransparent()
     );
 };
+
+//$FlowFixMe
+const flowRefineToHTMLElement = (node: Node): HTMLElement => node;
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 314a4a9..b30b2bf 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import {NodeParser} from './NodeParser';
 import CanvasRenderer from './CanvasRenderer';
 import Logger from './Logger';
 import ImageLoader from './ImageLoader';
+import {Bounds} from './Bounds';
+import {cloneWindow} from './Clone';
 import Color from './Color';
 
 export type Options = {
@@ -12,36 +14,64 @@ export type Options = {
     imageTimeout: number,
     proxy: string,
     canvas: HTMLCanvasElement,
-    allowTaint: true
+    allowTaint: true,
+    type: string
 };
 
 const html2canvas = (element: HTMLElement, options: Options): Promise<HTMLCanvasElement> => {
     const logger = new Logger();
-    const imageLoader = new ImageLoader(options, logger);
-    const stack = NodeParser(element, imageLoader, logger);
-    const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
 
-    const scale = window.devicePixelRatio;
-    const width = window.innerWidth;
-    const height = window.innerHeight;
-    canvas.width = Math.floor(width * scale);
-    canvas.height = Math.floor(height * scale);
-    canvas.style.width = `${width}px`;
-    canvas.style.height = `${height}px`;
+    const ownerDocument = element.ownerDocument;
+    const defaultView = ownerDocument.defaultView;
+    const windowBounds = new Bounds(
+        defaultView.pageXOffset,
+        defaultView.pageYOffset,
+        defaultView.innerWidth,
+        defaultView.innerHeight
+    );
 
-    // http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#special-backgrounds
-    const backgroundColor =
-        element === element.ownerDocument.documentElement
-            ? stack.container.style.background.backgroundColor.isTransparent()
-              ? element.ownerDocument.body instanceof HTMLElement
-                ? new Color(getComputedStyle(element.ownerDocument.body).backgroundColor)
-                : null
-              : stack.container.style.background.backgroundColor
-            : null;
+    return cloneWindow(
+        ownerDocument,
+        ownerDocument,
+        windowBounds,
+        element,
+        options
+    ).then(([container, clonedElement]) => {
+        if (__DEV__) {
+            logger.log(`Document cloned`);
+        }
 
-    return imageLoader.ready().then(imageStore => {
-        const renderer = new CanvasRenderer(canvas, {scale, backgroundColor, imageStore});
-        return renderer.render(stack);
+        const imageLoader = new ImageLoader(options, logger);
+        const stack = NodeParser(clonedElement, imageLoader, logger);
+        const canvas = ownerDocument.createElement('canvas');
+        const scale = defaultView.devicePixelRatio;
+        const width = window.innerWidth;
+        const height = window.innerHeight;
+        canvas.width = Math.floor(width * scale);
+        canvas.height = Math.floor(height * scale);
+        canvas.style.width = `${width}px`;
+        canvas.style.height = `${height}px`;
+
+        // http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#special-backgrounds
+        const backgroundColor =
+            clonedElement === ownerDocument.documentElement
+                ? stack.container.style.background.backgroundColor.isTransparent()
+                  ? ownerDocument.body instanceof HTMLElement
+                    ? new Color(getComputedStyle(ownerDocument.body).backgroundColor)
+                    : null
+                  : stack.container.style.background.backgroundColor
+                : null;
+
+        return imageLoader.ready().then(imageStore => {
+            if (container.parentNode) {
+                container.parentNode.removeChild(container);
+            } else if (__DEV__) {
+                logger.log(`Cannot detach cloned iframe as it is not in the DOM anymore`);
+            }
+
+            const renderer = new CanvasRenderer(canvas, {scale, backgroundColor, imageStore});
+            return renderer.render(stack);
+        });
     });
 };