我发现在我测试的所有浏览器中，最快的方法是用白色填充rect，或者任何你想要的颜色。我有一个非常大的显示器，在全屏模式下，clearRect非常慢，但fillRect是合理的。

context.fillStyle = "#ffffff";
context.fillRect(0,0,canvas.width, canvas.height);

缺点是画布不再是透明的。

This is a Free hand drawing Canvas with a Clear Canvas Button. See this live example of a canvas which you can draw on and also when required clear it for redrawing clearRect() is used to delete the prersent canvas and fillRect() is used to again draw the initial canvas which was clean and had no drawings on it. var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas"), ctx = canvas.getContext("2d"), painting = false, lastX = 0, lastY = 0, lineThickness = 1; canvas.width=canvas.height = 250; ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 250, 250); canvas.onmousedown = function(e) { painting = true; ctx.fillStyle = "#ffffff"; lastX = e.pageX - this.offsetLeft; lastY = e.pageY - this.offsetTop; }; canvas.onmouseup = function(e){ painting = false; } canvas.onmousemove = function(e) { if (painting) { mouseX = e.pageX - this.offsetLeft; mouseY = e.pageY - this.offsetTop; // find all points between var x1 = mouseX, x2 = lastX, y1 = mouseY, y2 = lastY; var steep = (Math.abs(y2 - y1) > Math.abs(x2 - x1)); if (steep){ var x = x1; x1 = y1; y1 = x; var y = y2; y2 = x2; x2 = y; } if (x1 > x2) { var x = x1; x1 = x2; x2 = x; var y = y1; y1 = y2; y2 = y; } var dx = x2 - x1, dy = Math.abs(y2 - y1), error = 0, de = dy / dx, yStep = -1, y = y1; if (y1 < y2) { yStep = 1; } lineThickness = 4; for (var x = x1; x < x2; x++) { if (steep) { ctx.fillRect(y, x, lineThickness , lineThickness ); } else { ctx.fillRect(x, y, lineThickness , lineThickness ); } error += de; if (error >= 0.5) { y += yStep; error -= 1.0; } } lastX = mouseX; lastY = mouseY; } } var button=document.getElementById("clear"); button.onclick=function clearcanvas(){ canvas=document.getElementById("canvas"), ctx = canvas.getContext('2d'); ctx.clearRect(0, 0, 250, 250); canvas.width=canvas.height = 250; ctx.fillRect(0, 0, 250, 250);} #clear{border-radius:10px; font-size:8px !important; position:absolute; top:1px;} #canvas{border-radius:10px} <link href="https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/4/w3.css" rel="stylesheet"/> <button id="clear" class="w3-padding w3-xxlarge w3-pink" type="button">Clear Canvas</button> <canvas id="canvas"></canvas>

这是我使用的，不管边界和矩阵变换:

function clearCanvas(canvas) {
  const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
  ctx.save();
  ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'copy';
  ctx.strokeStyle = 'transparent';
  ctx.beginPath();
  ctx.lineTo(0, 0);
  ctx.stroke();
  ctx.restore();
}

基本上，它保存了上下文的当前状态，并以globalCompositeOperation为copy绘制了一个透明像素。然后，恢复以前的上下文状态。

其他人已经很好地回答了这个问题，但如果一个简单的context对象上的clear()方法对你(对我)有用，这是我基于这里的答案使用的实现:

CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.clear = 
  CanvasRenderingContext2D.prototype.clear || function (preserveTransform) {
    if (preserveTransform) {
      this.save();
      this.setTransform(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0);
    }

    this.clearRect(0, 0, this.canvas.width, this.canvas.height);

    if (preserveTransform) {
      this.restore();
    }           
};

用法:

window.onload = function () {
  var canvas = document.getElementById('canvasId');
  var context = canvas.getContext('2d');

  // do some drawing
  context.clear();

  // do some more drawing
  context.setTransform(-1, 0, 0, 1, 200, 200);
  // do some drawing with the new transform
  context.clear(true);
  // draw more, still using the preserved transform
};

这些都是如何清除标准画布的好例子，但如果你使用的是paperjs，那么这将工作:

用JavaScript定义一个全局变量:

var clearCanvas = false;

从你的PaperScript定义:

function onFrame(event){
    if(clearCanvas && project.activeLayer.hasChildren()){
        project.activeLayer.removeChildren();
        clearCanvas = false;
    }
}

现在无论你在哪里设置clearCanvas为true，它都会从屏幕上清除所有的项目。

这是2018年，仍然没有本地的方法来完全清除画布重新绘制。clearRect()不会完全清除画布。非填充型图纸不清除(例如。矩形())

1.要完全清除画布，无论你如何绘制:

context.clearRect(0, 0, context.canvas.width, context.canvas.height);
context.beginPath();

优点:保留strokeStyle, fillStyle等;没有滞后;

缺点:如果你在绘制任何东西之前已经使用了beginPath，那就不必要了

2.使用宽度/高度hack:

context.canvas.width = context.canvas.width;

OR

context.canvas.height = context.canvas.height;

优点:与IE兼容 缺点:重置strokeStyle, fillStyle为黑色;延迟;

我想知道为什么本地解决方案不存在。实际上，clearRect()被认为是单行解决方案，因为大多数用户在绘制任何新路径之前都会执行beginPath()。虽然beginPath只在绘制线条时使用，而不是像rect()那样使用封闭路径。

这就是为什么接受的答案并没有解决我的问题，我最终浪费时间尝试不同的方法。诅咒你mozilla