Range: getClientRects() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

The Range.getClientRects() method returns a list of DOMRect objects representing the area of the screen occupied by the range. This is created by aggregating the results of calls to Element.getClientRects() for all the elements in the range.

Syntax

js
getClientRects()

Parameters

None.

Return value

An iterable sequence of DOMRect objects.

Examples

Logging selected client rect sizes

HTML

html
<div></div>
<pre id="output"></pre>

CSS

css
div {
  height: 80px;
  width: 200px;
  background-color: blue;
}

JavaScript

js
const range = document.createRange();
range.selectNode(document.querySelector("div"));
rectList = range.getClientRects();

const output = document.querySelector("#output");
for (const rect of rectList) {
  output.textContent = `${output.textContent}\n${rect.width}:${rect.height}`;
}

Result

Specifications

Specification
CSSOM View Module
# dom-range-getclientrects

Browser compatibility

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Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
getClientRects

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Full support
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