You can’t do this out-of-the-box with canvas. Canvas is just a bitmap, so the hover logic has to be implemented manually.
Here is how:
- Store all the rectangles you want as simple object
- For each mouse move on the canvas element:
- Get mouse position
- Iterate through the list of objects
- use isPointInPath() to detect a “hover”
- Redraw both states
Example
var canvas = document.querySelector("canvas"),
ctx = canvas.getContext("2d"),
rects = [
{x: 10, y: 10, w: 200, h: 50},
{x: 50, y: 70, w: 150, h: 30} // etc.
], i = 0, r;
// render initial rects.
while(r = rects[i++]) ctx.rect(r.x, r.y, r.w, r.h);
ctx.fillStyle = "blue"; ctx.fill();
canvas.onmousemove = function(e) {
// important: correct mouse position:
var rect = this.getBoundingClientRect(),
x = e.clientX - rect.left,
y = e.clientY - rect.top,
i = 0, r;
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height); // for demo
while(r = rects[i++]) {
// add a single rect to path:
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.rect(r.x, r.y, r.w, r.h);
// check if we hover it, fill red, if not fill it blue
ctx.fillStyle = ctx.isPointInPath(x, y) ? "red" : "blue";
ctx.fill();
}
};<canvas/>