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Export SVG D3 visualization to PNG or JPEG
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This example shows how to properly export a D3 SVG visualization to an image (png/jpeg) taking into account external css styles and embedded images. The code uses small FileSaver.js library to save generated images and Canvas-to-Blob.js library to ensure browser compatibility.

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index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>How to properly export SVG D3 visualization to PNG or JPEG</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/eligrey/canvas-toBlob.js/f1a01896135ab378aa5c0118eadd81da55e698d8/canvas-toBlob.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/e9d941381475b5df8b7d7691013401e171014e89/FileSaver.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
.blendCircle {
mix-blend-mode: multiply;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<button id='saveButton'>Export my D3 visualization to PNG</button>
</div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
// Let's create a mock visualization
var width = 300, height = 300;
var circleSizeMax = 15;
var rMax = Math.min(width,height)/2 - circleSizeMax;
var radius = d3.scale.linear().range([0,rMax]);
var angle = d3.scale.linear().range([0,2*Math.PI]);
var size = d3.scale.linear().range([0,circleSizeMax]);
var color = d3.scale.ordinal().range(['#fcfb3c','#fcf900','#ff825a','#ffd2cb','#71d362','#ffd16f','#ff3d5d','#ff7218','#04b3f3','#bce5ac','#6e0215','#69D2E7','#A7DBDB','#E0E4CC','#F38630','#E94C6F','#542733','#5A6A62','#C6D5CD','#DB3340','#E8B71A','#F7EAC8','#1FDA9A','#588C73','#F2E394','#F2AE72','#D96459','#D0C91F','#85C4B9','#008BBA','#DF514C','#00C8F8','#59C4C5','#FFC33C','#FBE2B4','#5E412F','#FCEBB6','#78C0A8','#F07818','#DE4D4E','#DA4624','#DE593A','#FFD041','#B1EB00','#53BBF4','#FF85CB','#FF432E','#354458','#3A9AD9','#29ABA4','#E9E0D6','#4298B5','#ADC4CC','#92B06A','#E19D29','#BCCF02','#5BB12F','#73C5E1','#9B539C','#FFA200','#00A03E','#24A8AC','#0087CB','#260126','#59323C','#F2EEB3','#BFAF80','#BFF073','#0DC9F7','#7F7F7F','#F05B47','#3B3A35','#20457C','#5E3448','#FB6648','#E45F56','#A3D39C','#7ACCC8','#4AAAA5','#DC2742','#AFA577','#ABA918','#8BAD39','#F2671F','#C91B26','#9C0F5F','#60047A','#0F5959','#17A697','#638CA6','#8FD4D9','#83AA30','#1499D3','#4D6684','#3D3D3D','#333333','#424242','#00CCD6','#EFEFEF','#CCC51C','#FFE600','#F05A28','#B9006E','#F17D80','#737495','#68A8AD','#C4D4AF']);
var x = function(d) { return radius( d.r ) * Math.cos( angle( d.angle ) ); };
var y = function(d) { return radius( d.r ) * Math.sin( angle( d.angle ) ); };
var svg = d3.select('body').append('svg')
.attr('width', width)
.attr('height',height);
var chart = svg.append('g').attr('transform','translate('+[width/2,height/2]+')');
var data = d3.range(150).map( function(d) { return {r: Math.random(), angle: Math.random(), size: Math.random() }; });
chart.selectAll('cirle')
.data(data).enter()
.append('circle')
.attr('class','blendCircle')
.attr({
cx: x,
cy: y,
r: function(d) { return size(d.size); },
fill: function(d,i) { return color(i); }
});
// Set-up the export button
d3.select('#saveButton').on('click', function(){
var svgString = getSVGString(svg.node());
svgString2Image( svgString, 2*width, 2*height, 'png', save ); // passes Blob and filesize String to the callback
function save( dataBlob, filesize ){
saveAs( dataBlob, 'D3 vis exported to PNG.png' ); // FileSaver.js function
}
});
// Below are the functions that handle actual exporting:
// getSVGString ( svgNode ) and svgString2Image( svgString, width, height, format, callback )
function getSVGString( svgNode ) {
svgNode.setAttribute('xlink', 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink');
var cssStyleText = getCSSStyles( svgNode );
appendCSS( cssStyleText, svgNode );
var serializer = new XMLSerializer();
var svgString = serializer.serializeToString(svgNode);
svgString = svgString.replace(/(\w+)?:?xlink=/g, 'xmlns:xlink='); // Fix root xlink without namespace
svgString = svgString.replace(/NS\d+:href/g, 'xlink:href'); // Safari NS namespace fix
return svgString;
function getCSSStyles( parentElement ) {
var selectorTextArr = [];
// Add Parent element Id and Classes to the list
selectorTextArr.push( '#'+parentElement.id );
for (var c = 0; c < parentElement.classList.length; c++)
if ( !contains('.'+parentElement.classList[c], selectorTextArr) )
selectorTextArr.push( '.'+parentElement.classList[c] );
// Add Children element Ids and Classes to the list
var nodes = parentElement.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
var id = nodes[i].id;
if ( !contains('#'+id, selectorTextArr) )
selectorTextArr.push( '#'+id );
var classes = nodes[i].classList;
for (var c = 0; c < classes.length; c++)
if ( !contains('.'+classes[c], selectorTextArr) )
selectorTextArr.push( '.'+classes[c] );
}
// Extract CSS Rules
var extractedCSSText = "";
for (var i = 0; i < document.styleSheets.length; i++) {
var s = document.styleSheets[i];
try {
if(!s.cssRules) continue;
} catch( e ) {
if(e.name !== 'SecurityError') throw e; // for Firefox
continue;
}
var cssRules = s.cssRules;
for (var r = 0; r < cssRules.length; r++) {
if ( contains( cssRules[r].selectorText, selectorTextArr ) )
extractedCSSText += cssRules[r].cssText;
}
}
return extractedCSSText;
function contains(str,arr) {
return arr.indexOf( str ) === -1 ? false : true;
}
}
function appendCSS( cssText, element ) {
var styleElement = document.createElement("style");
styleElement.setAttribute("type","text/css");
styleElement.innerHTML = cssText;
var refNode = element.hasChildNodes() ? element.children[0] : null;
element.insertBefore( styleElement, refNode );
}
}
function svgString2Image( svgString, width, height, format, callback ) {
var format = format ? format : 'png';
var imgsrc = 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,'+ btoa( unescape( encodeURIComponent( svgString ) ) ); // Convert SVG string to data URL
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
canvas.width = width;
canvas.height = height;
var image = new Image();
image.onload = function() {
context.clearRect ( 0, 0, width, height );
context.drawImage(image, 0, 0, width, height);
canvas.toBlob( function(blob) {
var filesize = Math.round( blob.length/1024 ) + ' KB';
if ( callback ) callback( blob, filesize );
});
};
image.src = imgsrc;
}
</script>
</html>
@thomasnaude
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Hi,
Thank you very much for sharing this !

I had to make a small tweak and wanted to share it. The current code does not seem to capture all the css that's needed. When the are several class layers , e.g. ".chart .header .title" the contains function won't spot them. The current code only finds the class ".chart" or ".header" or ".title".

I replaced line 115 with a call to the following function :

function includes(str,arr) {
  if ("undefined" !== typeof str) {
    for (var q = 0; q < arr.length; q++) {
      if (str.indexOf(arr[q]) !== -1) { return true; }
    }
  }
}

This is capturing more than needed but at least everything is there

@senasc
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senasc commented Nov 7, 2017

Hi,
Thank you first of all, perfectly works! But I have my d3 chart in primefaces dialog window (popup) and cannot figure out how to export it to the parent window from that popup. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!!!

@shalinimandal
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shalinimandal commented Nov 29, 2017 •
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hi,
Image is downloaded with black background. How to change this ?

@suhelroorkee
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Hi
can you tell me how we can save this png into our directory?

@mberhorst
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mberhorst commented Feb 8, 2018 •
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I would recommend to use a single css file for all the chart-relevant styles instead of this complex parsing of the relevant css classes.
With the plain css in hand you have everything you need to render the png and can remove half of the code. Also you can be sure that every css-class is present.

Or use your complete css...I inserted a huge minified css file instead of parsing the relevant classes and had no performance impact. But a reduced css would be cleaner.

@brunojennrich
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great start! thanks!

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