This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
The visible read-only property of the BarProp interface returns true if the user interface element it represents is visible.
A Boolean, which is true if the top-level window is opened by window.open with the popup feature enabled.
Note: Historically this represented whether the interface element used is visible or not. But for privacy reasons, this no longer represents the actual visibility of each interface element.
The following example prints true to the console if the window is not a popup.
console.log(window.locationbar.visible);
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-barprop-visible> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
visible |
1 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
returns_popup |
98 | 98 | 96 | 84 | No | 98 | 96 | 68 | No | 18.0 | 98 | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BarProp/visible