I can't use HTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL() inside $w.HtmlComponent.

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I have canvas app that takes an input from the user and saves it to the database. It then displays the data by using onMessage() for a single item in a collection. Which is all working fine. But I need to also display this same data in a repeater for a list of items in a collection. But

  1. I can’t use $w.HtmlComponent in a repeater to display the same data. Because it would be an overkill and even wix doesn’t allow embedding $w.HtmlComponent in a repeater.
    https://support.wix.com/en/article/elements-that-cant-be-added-to-repeaters

  2. My proposed solution was to use HTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL() or toBlob() or even send all elements in the canvas as “Stringified SVG” then post that as a message from html component. But that is not working for some reason. It works fine when I use the app without the sandbox(i.e on my local server).

So, my question is there any other limitation that I am not aware of when using the $w.HtmlComponent with HTMLCanvasElement or am I just missing something?

I am new to wix and I highly appreciate if somebody here can help me figure this out.

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Hi,
you can find guidelines and limitations for using the html component here .