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::backdrop

The ::backdrop CSS pseudo-element is a box the size of the viewport which is rendered immediately beneath any element being presented in fullscreen mode. This includes both elements which have been placed in fullscreen mode using the Fullscreen API and <dialog> elements.

When multiple elements have been placed into fullscreen mode, the backdrop is drawn immediately beneath the frontmost such element, and on top of the older fullscreen elements.

/* Backdrop is only displayed when dialog is opened with dialog.showModal() */
dialog::backdrop {
  background: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.25);
}

All fullscreen elements are placed in a last-in/first out (LIFO) stack in the top layer, which is a special layer in the viewport which is always rendered last (and therefore on top) before drawing the viewport's contents to the screen. The ::backdrop pseudo-element makes it possible to obscure, style, or completely hide everything located below the element when it's the topmost one in the top layer.

::backdrop neither inherits from nor is inherited by any other elements. No restrictions are made on what properties apply to this pseudo-element.

Syntax

::backdrop {
  /* ... */
}

Examples

Styling the backdrop for fullscreen video

In this example, the backdrop style used when a video is shifted to fullscreen mode is configured to be a grey-blue color rather than the black it defaults to in most browsers.

video::backdrop {
  background-color: #448;
}

The resulting screen looks like this:

An almost full-screen video player with purple above and below the player as the video player doesn't completely fill the screen.

See this example in action, after changing the color of the background cause the video to go fullscreen to see the change to the backdrop color.

Specifications

Specification
CSS Positioned Layout Module Level 4 # backdrop

Browser compatibility

	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	WebView Android	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet
`::backdrop`	3732	7912–79	47	11	2419	15.4	374.4.3	3732	47	2419	15.4	3.02.0
`dialog`	32	79	98	No	19	15.4	4.4.3	32	98	19	15.4	2.0
`fullscreen`	No	12–79	47	11	No	No	No	No	47	No	No	No