This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The DocumentTimeline
interface of the the Web Animations API represents animation timelines, including the default document timeline (accessed via Document.timeline
).
Constructor
DocumentTimeline()
- Creates a new
DocumentTimeline
object associated with the active document of the current browsing context.
Properties
This interface inherits its property from its parent, AnimationTimeline
.
AnimationTimeline.currentTime
- Returns the time value in milliseconds for this timeline or
null
if it is inactive.
Examples
We could share a single documentTimeline
among multiple animations, thus allowing us to manipulate just that group of animations via their shared timeline. This bit of code would start all the cats animating 500 milliseconds into their animations:
const cats = document.querySelectorAll('.sharedTimelineCat'); const sharedTimeline = new DocumentTimeline({ originTime: 500 }); for (const cat of cats) { const catKeyframes = new KeyframeEffect(cat, keyframes, timing); const catAnimation = new Animation(catKeyframes, sharedTimeline); catAnimation.play(); }
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
Web Animations The definition of 'DocumentTimeline' in that specification. |
Working Draft | Editor's draft. |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DocumentTimeline | Chrome Full support 54 | Edge Full support ≤79 | Firefox
Full support
75
| IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari Full support 13.1 | WebView Android Full support 54 | Chrome Android Full support 54 | Firefox Android
Full support
63
| Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS Full support 13.4 | Samsung Internet Android Full support 6.0 |
DocumentTimeline() constructor | Chrome Full support 61 | Edge Full support 79 | Firefox
Full support
75
| IE No support No | Opera No support No | Safari Full support 13.1 | WebView Android Full support 61 | Chrome Android Full support 61 | Firefox Android
Full support
63
| Opera Android No support No | Safari iOS Full support 13.4 | Samsung Internet Android Full support 8.0 |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.