WebGLBuffer

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The WebGLBuffer interface is part of the WebGL API and represents an opaque buffer object storing data such as vertices or colors.

WebGLObject WebGLBuffer

Description

The WebGLBuffer object does not define any methods or properties of its own and its content is not directly accessible. When working with WebGLBuffer objects, the following methods of the WebGLRenderingContext are useful:

Examples

Creating a buffer

js
const canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
const gl = canvas.getContext("webgl");
const buffer = gl.createBuffer();

Specifications

Specification
WebGL Specification
# 5.4

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
WebGLBuffer
Available in workers
Experimental

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.

See also