# Drawing Rectangles (and Squares) on the Canvas | kirupa.com

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drawing-rectangles-and-squares-on-the-canvas-kirupa-com/628522>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [April 23, 2015, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drawing-rectangles-and-squares-on-the-canvas-kirupa-com/628522 "2015-04-23T07:04:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 23, 2015, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/drawing-rectangles-and-squares-on-the-canvas-kirupa-com/628522/1 "2015-04-23T07:04:28Z")

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by [kirupa](http://www.kirupa.com/me/index.htm) | 22 April 2015

When drawing shapes on the canvas, you can actually go really REALLY far without ever having to draw a rectangle. The reason for that is simple. Rectangles are terrible things that nobody should ever have to deal with:

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [http://www.kirupa.com/html5/drawing\_rectangles\_squares\_canvas.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/html5/drawing_rectangles_squares_canvas.htm)