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Tanzeel Kazi
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Using the canvas approach you can make the grid size dynamic by changing the separation parameter.

However, if your grid size is going to be static I feel that maybe you don't need to draw the grid. Just for the sake of displaying a grid to the user you could use CSS to repeat a background image as demonstrated in the fiddle here. That will also be good on page performance.

Using the canvas approach you can make the grid size dynamic by changing the separation parameter.

However, if your grid size is going to be static I feel that maybe you don't need to draw the grid. Just for the sake of displaying a grid to the user you could use CSS to repeat a background image as demonstrated in the fiddle here. That will also be good on page performance.

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Tanzeel Kazi
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I am posting my code using canvas here on SO but I am also creating a working sample on JSFiddle here.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>StackOverflow test bed</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function drawGrid() {
            var cnv = document.getElementById("cnv");
        
            var gridOptions = {
                minorLines: {
                    separation: 5,
                    color: '#00FF00'
                },
                majorLines: {
                    separation: 30,
                    color: '#FF0000'
                }
            };

            drawGridLines(cnv, gridOptions.minorLines);
            drawGridLines(cnv, gridOptions.majorLines);

            return;
        }

        function drawGridLines(cnv, lineOptions) {


            var iWidth = cnv.width;
            var iHeight = cnv.height;

            var ctx = cnv.getContext('2d');

            ctx.strokeStyle = lineOptions.color;
            ctx.strokeWidth = 1;
        
            ctx.beginPath();

            var iCount = null;
            var i = null;
            var x = null;
            var y = null;

            iCount = Math.floor(iWidth / lineOptions.separation);

            for (i = 1; i <= iCount; i++) {
                x = (i * lineOptions.separation);
                ctx.moveTo(x, 0);
                ctx.lineTo(x, iHeight);
                ctx.stroke();
            }


            iCount = Math.floor(iHeight / lineOptions.separation);

            for (i = 1; i <= iCount; i++) {
                y = (i * lineOptions.separation);
                ctx.moveTo(0, y);
                ctx.lineTo(iWidth, y);
                ctx.stroke();
            }

            ctx.closePath();

            return;
        }

    </script>
</head>
<body onload="drawGrid()">
    <canvas id="cnv" width="500" height="500"></canvas>
</body>
</html>