How do I change the hair on my avatar?

How do I change an avatar's clothes and hair styles using Canvas?

• I am making an HTML5 game and in one part of it I have to let users create their own custom avatars similar to as shown here: I was asking, as to whether usage of canvas would be a nice idea. Even if we go with canvas,  how to position the various elements that make up the avatar? I.e shoes, pants, weapon, left/right arms etc, etc?

• Answer:

  I think using images would be a better idea. You can have all you hair styles in as images, then apply the appropriate. Save a param based on which image is applied for the current user. Using an HTML 5 canvas means, you'll have to redraw for every style change, which is a heavy process and can make your application slow.