This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The DOMRectList method item() returns the DOMRect at the specified index within the list, or null if the index is out of range.
item(index)
indexA zero-based integer representing the position of the DOMRect in the DOMRectList to retrieve.
A DOMRect object at the specified index in the DOMRectList, or null if index is greater than or equal to the number of rectangles in the list.
const rects = document.getElementById("rects").getClientRects();
console.log(rects.length); // Number of rectangles in the DOMRectList
if (rects.length > 0) {
console.log(rects.item(0)); // Logs the first DOMRect object
}
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
item |
2 | 12 | 3 | ≤12.1 | 4 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 3 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 3 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMRectList/item