This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Makes a request to bring the window to the front. It may fail due to user settings and the window isn't guaranteed to be frontmost before this method returns.
focus()
None.
None (undefined).
if (clicked) {
window.focus();
}
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-window-focus-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
focus |
1Starting in Chrome 66, opening a popup in fullscreen mode and calling this function will end fullscreen mode. |
12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/focus