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DocumentPictureInPicture: enter event

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The enter event of the DocumentPictureInPicture interface is fired when the Picture-in-Picture window is successfully opened.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

addEventListener("enter", (event) => { })

onenter = (event) => { }

Event type

A DocumentPictureInPictureEvent.

Examples

documentPictureInPicture.addEventListener("enter", (event) => {
  const pipWindow = event.window;
  console.log("Video player has entered the pip window");

  const pipMuteButton = pipWindow.document.createElement("button");
  pipMuteButton.textContent = "Mute";
  pipMuteButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
    const pipVideo = pipWindow.document.querySelector("#video");
    if (!pipVideo.muted) {
      pipVideo.muted = true;
      pipMuteButton.textContent = "Unmute";
    } else {
      pipVideo.muted = false;
      pipMuteButton.textContent = "Mute";
    }
  });

  pipWindow.document.body.append(pipMuteButton);
});

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
enter_event 116 116 No 102 No No No No No No No No

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DocumentPictureInPicture/enter_event