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.getShaderSource() method of the WebGL API returns the source code of a WebGLShader as a string.
getShaderSource(shader)
shaderA WebGLShader object to get the source code from.
A string containing the source code of the shader.
const shader = gl.createShader(gl.VERTEX_SHADER); gl.shaderSource(shader, originalSource); const source = gl.getShaderSource(shader);
| Specification |
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| WebGL Specification> # 5.14.9> |
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| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
getShaderSource |
9 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 5.1 | 25 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 1.5 | 4.4.3 | 8 |
WebGLRenderingContext.createShader()WebGLRenderingContext.isShader()WebGLRenderingContext.deleteShader()
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRenderingContext/getShaderSource