This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2020.
The unobserve() method of the ResizeObserver interface ends the observing of a specified Element or SVGElement.
unobserve(target)
targetA reference to an Element or SVGElement to be unobserved.
None (undefined).
None.
The following snippet is taken from the resize-observer-text.html (see source) example:
const resizeObserver = new ResizeObserver((entries) => {
for (const entry of entries) {
if (entry.contentBoxSize) {
// Checking for chrome as using a non-standard array
if (entry.contentBoxSize[0]) {
h1Elem.style.fontSize = `${Math.max(
1.5,
entry.contentBoxSize[0].inlineSize / 200,
)}rem`;
pElem.style.fontSize = `${Math.max(
1,
entry.contentBoxSize[0].inlineSize / 600,
)}rem`;
} else {
h1Elem.style.fontSize = `${Math.max(
1.5,
entry.contentBoxSize.inlineSize / 200,
)}rem`;
pElem.style.fontSize = `${Math.max(
1,
entry.contentBoxSize.inlineSize / 600,
)}rem`;
}
} else {
h1Elem.style.fontSize = `${Math.max(
1.5,
entry.contentRect.width / 200,
)}rem`;
pElem.style.fontSize = `${Math.max(1, entry.contentRect.width / 600)}rem`;
}
}
console.log("Size changed");
});
resizeObserver.observe(divElem);
checkbox.addEventListener("change", () => {
if (checkbox.checked) {
resizeObserver.observe(divElem);
} else {
resizeObserver.unobserve(divElem);
}
});
| Specification |
|---|
| Resize Observer> # dom-resizeobserver-unobserve> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
unobserve |
64 | 79 | 69 | 51 | 13.1 | 64 | 79 | 47 | 13.4 | 9.0 | 64 | 13.4 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ResizeObserver/unobserve