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WebGLRenderingContext: deleteFramebuffer() method

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.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The WebGLRenderingContext.deleteFramebuffer() method of the WebGL API deletes a given WebGLFramebuffer object. This method has no effect if the frame buffer has already been deleted.

Syntax

deleteFramebuffer(framebuffer)

Parameters

framebuffer

A WebGLFramebuffer object to delete.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

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Deleting a frame buffer

const canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
const gl = canvas.getContext("webgl");
const framebuffer = gl.createFramebuffer();

// …

gl.deleteFramebuffer(framebuffer);

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
deleteFramebuffer 9 12 4 12 5.1 25 4 12 8 1.5 4.4.3 8

See also

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