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WebGLRenderbuffer

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The WebGLRenderbuffer interface is part of the WebGL API and represents a buffer that can contain an image, or that can be a source or target of a rendering operation.

WebGLObject WebGLRenderbuffer

Description

The WebGLRenderbuffer object does not define any methods or properties of its own and its content is not directly accessible. When working with WebGLRenderbuffer objects, the following methods are useful:

Examples

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Creating a render buffer

const canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
const gl = canvas.getContext("webgl");
const buffer = gl.createRenderbuffer();

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
WebGLRenderbuffer 10 12 4 12 5.1 25 4 12 8 1.5 4.4 8
worker_support No No 105 No No No 105 No No No No No

See also

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