DocumentPictureInPicture: enter event

Limited availability

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

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The enter event of the DocumentPictureInPicture interface is fired when the Picture-in-Picture window is successfully opened.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

addEventListener("enter", (event) => { })
onenter = (event) => { }

Event type

A DocumentPictureInPictureEvent.

Examples

documentPictureInPicture.addEventListener("enter", (event) => {
 const pipWindow = event.window;
 console.log("Video player has entered the pip window");
 const pipMuteButton = pipWindow.document.createElement("button");
 pipMuteButton.textContent = "Mute";
 pipMuteButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
 const pipVideo = pipWindow.document.querySelector("#video");
 if (!pipVideo.muted) {
 pipVideo.muted = true;
 pipMuteButton.textContent = "Unmute";
 } else {
 pipVideo.muted = false;
 pipMuteButton.textContent = "Mute";
 }
 });
 pipWindow.document.body.append(pipMuteButton);
});