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Document: plugins property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since June 2018.

The plugins read-only property of the Document interface returns an HTMLCollection object containing one or more HTMLEmbedElements representing the <embed> elements in the current document.

Note: For a list of installed plugins, use Navigator.plugins instead.

Value

An HTMLCollection.

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-document-plugins-dev

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
plugins
Chrome – Partial support
Chrome 1 – 35 (Release date: 2008-12-11)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 36 (Release date: 2014-07-16)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Partial support
Firefox 1 – 60 (Release date: 2004-11-09)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 61 (Release date: 2018-06-26)
footnote Full support
Opera – Partial support
Opera 12.1 – 50 (Release date: 2012-11-20)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
Opera – Full support
Opera 51 (Release date: 2018-02-07)
footnote Full support
Safari – Partial support
Safari 3 – 10 (Release date: 2007-10-26)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
Safari – Full support
Safari 10.1 (Release date: 2017-03-27)
footnote Full support
Chrome Android – Partial support
Chrome Android 18 – 35 (Release date: 2012-06-27)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 36 (Release date: 2014-07-16)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Partial support
Firefox for Android 4 – 60 (Release date: 2011-03-29)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 61 (Release date: 2018-06-26)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Partial support
Opera Android 12.1 – 46 (Release date: 2012-10-09)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 47 (Release date: 2018-07-23)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – Partial support
Safari on iOS 1 – 10 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
Safari on iOS – Full support
Safari on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27)
footnote Full support
Samsung Internet – Partial support
Samsung Internet 1 – 2.1 (Release date: 2013-04-27)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 3 (Release date: 2015-04-10)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Partial support
WebView Android 4.4 – 4.4.3 (Release date: 2013-12-09)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 37 (Release date: 2014-09-03)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – Partial support
WebView on iOS 1 – 10 (Release date: 2007-06-29)
footnote Partial support
footnote Only supported for HTMLDocument, not all Document objects.
WebView on iOS – Full support
WebView on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27)
footnote Full support

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