Document: pictureInPictureElement property - Web APIs | MDN

Value

A reference to the Element object that's currently in picture-in-picture mode.

Returns null if the document has no associated element in picture-in-picture mode. For example, there's no picture-in-picture element, or the element is from an iframe.

Examples

This example presents a function, exitPictureInPicture(), which tests the value returned by pictureInPictureElement. If the document is in picture-in-picture mode (pictureInPictureElement isn't null), Document.exitPictureInPicture() is run to exit picture-in-picture mode.

js

function exitPictureInPicture() {
  if (document.pictureInPictureElement) {
    document.exitPictureInPicture();
  }
}

Specifications

Specification
Picture-in-Picture
# dom-documentorshadowroot-pictureinpictureelement

Browser compatibility

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