CSS: paintWorklet static property

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

The static, read-only paintWorklet property of the CSS interface provides access to the paint worklet, which programmatically generates an image where a CSS property expects a file.

Value

The associated Worklet object.

Examples

The following example demonstrates loading a paint worklet from its js file and does so by feature detection.

js
if ("paintWorklet" in CSS) {
  CSS.paintWorklet.addModule("checkerboard.js");
}

Specifications

Specification
CSS Painting API Level 1
# ref-for-dom-css-paintworklet

Browser compatibility

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paintWorklet static property
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Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
See implementation notes.

See also