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PerformanceElementTiming: element property

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

The element read-only property of the PerformanceElementTiming interface returns an Element which is a pointer to the observed element.

Value

An Element, or null if the element is a shadow DOM element.

Examples

Logging the observed element

In this example an <img> element is being observed by adding the elementtiming attribute. A PerformanceObserver is registered to get all performance entries of type "element" and the buffered flag is used to access data from before observer creation. The DOM element that is observed is logged to the console.

html

<img src="image.jpg" alt="a nice image" elementtiming="big-image" />

js

const observer = new PerformanceObserver((list) => {
  list.getEntries().forEach((entry) => {
    if (entry.identifier === "big-image") {
      console.log(entry.element);
    }
  });
});
observer.observe({ type: "element", buffered: true });

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
element 77 79 No No 64 No 77 77 No 55 No 12.0

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PerformanceElementTiming/element