The PaintWorkletGlobalScope interface of the CSS Painting API represents the global object available inside a paint Worklet.

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This interface inherits methods from WorkletGlobalScope.

PaintWorkletGlobalScope.devicePixelRatio Experimental

Returns the current device's ratio of physical pixels to logical pixels.

This interface inherits methods from WorkletGlobalScope.

PaintWorkletGlobalScope.registerPaint() Experimental

Registers a class to programmatically generate an image where a CSS property expects a file.

None.

The following three examples go together to show creating, loading, and using a paint Worklet.

The following shows an example worklet module. This should be in a separate js file. Note that registerPaint() is called without a reference to a paint Worklet.

class CheckerboardPainter {
  paint(ctx, geom, properties) {
    // The global object here is a PaintWorkletGlobalScope
    // Methods and properties can be accessed directly
    // as global features or prefixed using self
    const dpr = self.devicePixelRatio;

    // Use `ctx` as if it was a normal canvas
    const colors = ["red", "green", "blue"];
    const size = 32;
    for (let y = 0; y < geom.height / size; y++) {
      for (let x = 0; x < geom.width / size; x++) {
        const color = colors[(x + y) % colors.length];
        ctx.beginPath();
        ctx.fillStyle = color;
        ctx.rect(x * size, y * size, size, size);
        ctx.fill();
      }
    }
  }
}

// Register our class under a specific name
registerPaint("checkerboard", CheckerboardPainter);

The following example demonstrates loading the above worklet from its js file and does so by feature detection.

if ("paintWorklet" in CSS) {
  CSS.paintWorklet.addModule("checkerboard.js");
}

This example shows how to use a paint Worklet in a stylesheet, including the simplest way to provide a fallback if CSS.paintWorklet isn't supported.

<style>
  textarea {
    background-image: url(checkerboard);
    background-image: paint(checkerboard);
  }
</style>
<textarea></textarea>

You can also use the @supports at-rule.

@supports (background: paint(id)) {
  background-image: paint(checkerboard);
}

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