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DocumentPictureInPicture: window property

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 window read-only property of the DocumentPictureInPicture interface returns a Window instance representing the browsing context inside the Picture-in-Picture window.

Value

A Window object instance if the Picture-in-Picture window has already been opened using DocumentPictureInPicture.requestWindow(), or null otherwise.

Examples

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

// …

await window.documentPictureInPicture.requestWindow({
  width: videoPlayer.clientWidth,
  height: videoPlayer.clientHeight,
});

// …

const pipWindow = window.documentPictureInPicture.window;
if (pipWindow) {
  // Mute video playing in the Picture-in-Picture window.
  const pipVideo = pipWindow.document.querySelector("#video");
  pipVideo.muted = true;
}

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
window 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/window