Window: documentPictureInPicture 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 documentPictureInPicture read-only property of the Window interface returns a reference to the DocumentPictureInPicture object for the current document context.

Value

A DocumentPictureInPicture object instance.

Examples

js
const videoPlayer = document.getElementById("player");

// …

// Open a Picture-in-Picture window.
await window.documentPictureInPicture.requestWindow({
  width: videoPlayer.clientWidth,
  height: videoPlayer.clientHeight,
});

// …

Specifications

Specification
Document Picture-in-Picture Specification
# dom-window-documentpictureinpicture

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile server
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Deno
documentPictureInPicture
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 116 (Release date: 2023-08-15)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 116 (Release date: 2023-08-21)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Preview support
Firefox 151 (Release date: 2026-05-19)
footnote Preview browser support
Opera – Full support
Opera 102 (Release date: 2023-08-23)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – No support
Chrome Android
footnote No support
Firefox for Android – Preview support
Firefox for Android 151 (Release date: 2026-05-19)
footnote Preview browser support
Opera Android – No support
Opera Android
footnote No support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – No support
Samsung Internet
footnote No support
WebView Android – No support
WebView Android
footnote No support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support
Deno – No support
Deno
footnote No support

Legend

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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

See also