This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
In browsers, document.defaultView returns the window object associated with a document, or null if none is available.
This property is read-only.
The window object.
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-document-defaultview-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
defaultView |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/defaultView