You can't scale the canvas using CSS in the way that you think. A canvas is basically a more advanced image. Scaling the canvas via CSS just stretches the canvas the same way an image would stretch. To change the canvas height and width, you need to change it's height and width attributes in the tag or via code. This will physically change the canvas to the size that you want without scaling and/or stretching.
That being said, we can use this to watch for window size changes and resize the canvas when the window changes.
window.addEventListener('resize', e => {
canvas.width = window.innerWidth
canvas.height = window.innerHeight
})
With some basic math, we can calculate what a 70% width would be, it would be done like this
window.addEventListener('resize', e => {
canvas.width = window.innerWidth * 0.7
canvas.height = window.innerHeight
})
The next thing we need to do is get the local position of the mouse on the canvas, which can be done using mousePosition - canvasOffset like this
let x = e.clientX - canvas.offsetLeft
let y = e.clientY - canvas.offsetTop
When all is said and done, we end up with something like this (To see it in action press run then click on Full Page and you will see the canvas resize):
const canvas = document.querySelector('canvas')
const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d')
// Set the inital height and width of the canvas
canvas.width = window.innerWidth
canvas.height = window.innerHeight
canvas.addEventListener('mousemove', e => {
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height)
// Get the local x/y coordinates of the mouse on the canvas
let x = e.clientX - canvas.offsetLeft
let y = e.clientY - canvas.offsetTop
// Draw a dot where the mouse is
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(x, y, 10, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
ctx.fillStyle = 'white';
ctx.fill();
})
// Update the height and width when the window size changes
window.addEventListener('resize', e => {
canvas.width = window.innerWidth
canvas.height = window.innerHeight
})
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
canvas {
background-color: black;
display: block;
}
<canvas></canvas>
In this example below, we use a canvas that is 70% the width and height of the screen and center it with CSS. However, we never touch the height/width with css because it will mess up the canvas' coordinate system. This part is done with JavaScript.
const canvas = document.querySelector('canvas')
const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d')
// Set the inital height and width of the canvas
canvas.width = window.innerWidth * 0.7
canvas.height = window.innerHeight * 0.7
canvas.addEventListener('mousemove', e => {
ctx.clearRect(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height)
// Get the local x/y coordinates of the mouse on the canvas
let x = e.clientX - canvas.offsetLeft
let y = e.clientY - canvas.offsetTop
// Draw a dot where the mouse is
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.arc(x, y, 10, 0, 2 * Math.PI, false);
ctx.fillStyle = 'white';
ctx.fill();
})
// Update the height and width when the window size changes
window.addEventListener('resize', e => {
canvas.width = window.innerWidth * 0.7
canvas.height = window.innerHeight * 0.7
})
body {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
canvas {
background-color: black;
display: block;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
top: 0;
margin: auto;
}
<canvas></canvas>
