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.deleteTexture() method of the WebGL API deletes a given WebGLTexture object. This method has no effect if the texture has already been deleted.
deleteTexture(texture)
textureA WebGLTexture object to delete.
None (undefined).
const canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
const gl = canvas.getContext("webgl");
const texture = gl.createTexture();
// …
gl.deleteTexture(texture);
| Specification |
|---|
| WebGL Specification> # 5.14.8> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
deleteTexture |
9 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 5.1 | 25 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 1.5 | 4.4.3 | 8 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRenderingContext/deleteTexture