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Editing designs
Edit an existing design with the HTML API.
After a user creates a design, they may want to edit that design at a later point in time. To enable this, Canva provides your website with the ID of the design. You can use this ID to re-open a design in the Canva editor.
This part of the tutorial series explains how to open an existing design in the Canva editor.
Step 1: Get the ID of the design
You can get the ID of a design in the following ways:
Using an HTML input element.
Using JavaScript callback functions.
You can use whatever option is most convenient.
Option 1: Using an HTML input element
On the same page as the Canva Button, create an input element with a unique name attribute:
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<input name="designId" />
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Add either (or both) of the following attributes to the Canva Button's button element:
data-on-design-open-input-design-id
data-on-design-publish-input-design-id
Then set these attributes to the value of the input element's name attribute:
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<button
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  data-design-type="Poster"
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  data-on-design-open-input-design-id="designId"
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  data-on-design-publish-input-design-id="designId"
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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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If the data-on-design-open-input-design-id attribute is defined, Canva inserts the ID of the design into the specified field when the user opens a design. This includes when creating a new design or editing an existing design.
If the data-on-design-publish-input-design-id attribute is defined, Canva inserts the ID of the design into the specified field when the user publishes their design.
When Canva inserts a value into the input element, save the ID for future use.
Option 2: Using JavaScript callback functions
On the same page as the Canva Button, create two JavaScript functions:
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function onDesignOpen(opts) {
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  console.log(opts);
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}
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​
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function onDesignPublish(opts) {
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  console.log(opts);
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}
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Each function should accept a single argument. These functions receive the same parameters as the JavaScript API's onDesignOpen and onDesignPublish functions.
Add either (or both) of the following attributes to the Canva Button's button element:
data-on-design-open
data-on-design-publish
Then set these attributes to the names of the JavaScript functions:
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<button
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  data-design-type="Poster"
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  data-on-design-open="onDesignOpen"
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  data-on-design-publish="onDesignPublish"
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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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When a user opens a design, Canva calls the function specified in the data-on-design-open attribute. This includes when creating a new design or editing an existing design.
When a user publishes a design, Canva calls the function specified in the data-on-design-publish attribute.
You can access the ID of the design via the opts.designId parameter:
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function onDesignOpen(opts) {
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  console.log(opts.designId);
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}
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​
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function onDesignPublish(opts) {
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  console.log(opts.designId);
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}
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When Canva calls these functions, save the ID for future use.
You can also use the data-on-design-publish attribute to Download a design.
Step 2: Open an existing design in the Canva editor
To open an existing design in the Canva editor, create a Canva Button with a data-design-id attribute:
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<button
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  data-design-id="DESIGN ID GOES HERE"
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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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  >Edit design</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-id attribute on the button element tells the Canva Button SDK that clicking this button should open an existing design. The value of the data-design-id attribute must be the ID of a design.
If the button element has a data-design-id attribute, it must not have a data-design-type attribute. These attributes are mutually exclusive.
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Contents
Step 1: Get the ID of the design
Option 1: Using an HTML input element
Option 2: Using JavaScript callback functions
Step 2: Open an existing design in the Canva editor