Canvas rectangle with 3D effect border

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The highlighted section are div with raised border which gives it a 3D effect.
I am trying to create something like this but using HTML5 canvas element.Canvas methods allow us to create such rectangles but is there any way to provide such raised border 3D effect to my canvas rectangle??

Posted 8-Jan-13 2:17am

Dexter11

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-01-08T03:37:00

Solution 1

If this really needs to be HTML5 canvas, all you need it to draw some lines:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/html5/canvas_drawing_lines.htm[^].

Such frame is nothing but 4 straight line segments (at worst, 8) of a couple of different shades of color, like white and gray.

—SA

Posted 8-Jan-13 3:37am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 8-Jan-13 3:39am

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fjdiewornncalwe 8-Jan-13 10:41am

+5. Clean and simple.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Jan-13 10:46am

Thank you, Marcus. I'm not sure that OP needs exactly that though, it was a rather formal answer.
—SA

Dexter11 · Answer 2 · 2013-01-08T22:55:00

Solution 2

C#

context.rect(50, 50, 100, 100);
context.fillStyle = 'white';
context.shadowColor = 'black';
context.shadowBlur = 25;
context.shadowOffsetX = 10;
context.shadowOffsetY = 10;
context.fill();

Posted 8-Jan-13 22:55pm

Dexter11