DocumentPictureInPicture: window property
Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.
The window read-only property of the
DocumentPictureInPicture interface returns a Window instance representing the browsing context inside the Picture-in-Picture window.
Value
A Window object instance if the Picture-in-Picture window has already been opened using DocumentPictureInPicture.requestWindow(), or null otherwise.
Examples
js
const videoPlayer = document.getElementById("player");
// …
await window.documentPictureInPicture.requestWindow({
width: videoPlayer.clientWidth,
height: videoPlayer.clientHeight,
});
// …
const pipWindow = window.documentPictureInPicture.window;
if (pipWindow) {
// Mute video playing in the Picture-in-Picture window.
const pipVideo = pipWindow.document.querySelector("#video");
pipVideo.muted = true;
}
Specifications
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| Document Picture-in-Picture Specification # dom-documentpictureinpicture-window |
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- Full support
- Full support
- In development. Supported in a pre-release version.
- In development. Supported in a pre-release version.
- No support
- No support