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title: "About"
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Before you get started with the script, there are a few things that are good to know regarding the
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script and some of its limitations.
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# Introduction
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The script allows you to take "screenshots" of webpages or parts of it, directly on the users browser.
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The screenshot is based on the DOM and as such may not be 100% accurate to the real representation
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as it does not make an actual screenshot, but builds the screenshot based on the information
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available on the page.
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# How it works
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The script traverses through the DOM of the page it is loaded on. It gathers information on all the elements
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there, which it then uses to build a representation of the page. In other words, it does not actually take a
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screenshot of the page, but builds a representation of it based on the properties it reads from the DOM.
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As a result, it is only able to render correctly properties that it understands, meaning there are many
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CSS properties which do not work. For a full list of supported CSS properties, check out the
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[support features](/features/) page.
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# Limitations
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All the images that the script uses need to reside under the [same origin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy)
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for it to be able to read them without the assistance of a [proxy](/proxy/). Similarly, if you have other `canvas`
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elements on the page, which have been tainted with cross-origin content, they will become dirty and no longer readable by html2canvas.
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The script doesn't render plugin content such as Flash or Java applets.
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# Browser compatibility
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The library should work fine on the following browsers (with `Promise` polyfill):
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- Firefox 3.5+
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- Google Chrome
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- Opera 12+
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- IE9+
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- Edge
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- Safari 6+
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