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Create a design with the HTML API.

If you followed the steps for creating a Canva Button with the HTML API, the generated code provides a Button that, when clicked, creates a new design in the Canva editor:
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<button
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  data-design-type="Poster"
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  data-api-key="API KEY GOES HERE"
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  class="canva-design-button"
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  style="display: none;"
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  >Design with Canva</button
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>
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<script>
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  (function (c, a, n) {
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    var w = c.createElement(a),
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      s = c.getElementsByTagName(a)[0];
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    w.src = n;
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    s.parentNode.insertBefore(w, s);
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  })(document, "script", "https://sdk.canva.com/designbutton/v2/api.js");
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</script>
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The presence of the data-design-type attribute on the button element tells Canva that clicking the Button should create a new design.
The value of the data-design-type attribute determines the design type of the created design. The design type determines:
the dimensions of the design
the templates that Canva shows to the user
For a complete list of the supported design types, refer to Design types.
If the button element has a data-design-type attribute, it must not have a data-design-id attribute. The attributes are mutually exclusive.

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