Document: pictureInPictureEnabled property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

The read-onlypictureInPictureEnabled property of theDocument interface indicates whether or not picture-in-picture mode isavailable.

Picture-in-Picture mode is available by default unless specifiedotherwise by aPermissions-Policy.

Although this property is read-only, it will not throw if it is modified (even instrict mode); the setter is a no-operation and will be ignored.

Value

A boolean value, which istrue if a video can enterpicture-in-picture and be displayed in a floating window by callingHTMLVideoElement.requestPictureInPicture(). If picture-in-picture mode isn'tavailable, this value isfalse.

Examples

In this example, before attempting to enter picture-in-picture mode for a<video> element the value ofpictureInPictureEnabled ischecked, to avoid making the call if the feature is not available.

function requestPictureInPicture() {  if (document.pictureInPictureEnabled) {    videoElement.requestPictureInPicture();  } else {    console.log("Your browser cannot use picture-in-picture right now");  }}