Animation: timeline property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2020.

The Animation.timeline property of the Animation interface returns or sets the timeline associated with this animation. A timeline is a source of time values for synchronization purposes, and is an AnimationTimeline-based object. By default, the animation's timeline and the Document's timeline are the same.

Value

A timeline object to use as the timing source for the animation, or null to use the default, which is the Document's timeline.

Examples

Here we set the animation's timeline to be the same as the document's timeline (this is the default timeline for all animations, by the way):

js
animation.timeline = document.timeline;

Specifications

Specification
Web Animations
# dom-animation-timeline

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
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Full support
Full support
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