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BrowserView

A BrowserView can be used to embed additional web content into a BrowserWindow. It is like a child window, except that it is positioned relative to its owning window. It is meant to be an alternative to the webview tag.

Class: BrowserView

Create and control views.

Process: Main

Example

// In the main process.
const { app, BrowserView, BrowserWindow } = require('electron')

app.whenReady().then(() => {
  const win = new BrowserWindow({ width: 800, height: 600 })

  const view = new BrowserView()
  win.setBrowserView(view)
  view.setBounds({ x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 300 })
  view.webContents.loadURL('https://electronjs.org')
})

new BrowserView([options]) Experimental

  • options Object (optional)

Instance Properties

Objects created with new BrowserView have the following properties:

view.webContents Experimental

A WebContents object owned by this view.

Instance Methods

Objects created with new BrowserView have the following instance methods:

view.setAutoResize(options) Experimental

  • options Object
    • width boolean (optional) - If true, the view's width will grow and shrink together with the window. false by default.
    • height boolean (optional) - If true, the view's height will grow and shrink together with the window. false by default.
    • horizontal boolean (optional) - If true, the view's x position and width will grow and shrink proportionally with the window. false by default.
    • vertical boolean (optional) - If true, the view's y position and height will grow and shrink proportionally with the window. false by default.

view.setBounds(bounds) Experimental

Resizes and moves the view to the supplied bounds relative to the window.

view.getBounds() Experimental

Returns Rectangle

The bounds of this BrowserView instance as Object.

view.setBackgroundColor(color) Experimental

  • color string - Color in Hex, RGB, ARGB, HSL, HSLA or named CSS color format. The alpha channel is optional for the hex type.

Examples of valid color values:

  • Hex
    • #fff (RGB)
    • #ffff (ARGB)
    • #ffffff (RRGGBB)
    • #ffffffff (AARRGGBB)
  • RGB
    • rgb(([\d]+),\s*([\d]+),\s*([\d]+))
      • e.g. rgb(255, 255, 255)
  • RGBA
    • rgba(([\d]+),\s*([\d]+),\s*([\d]+),\s*([\d.]+))
      • e.g. rgba(255, 255, 255, 1.0)
  • HSL
    • hsl((-?[\d.]+),\s*([\d.]+)%,\s*([\d.]+)%)
      • e.g. hsl(200, 20%, 50%)
  • HSLA
    • hsla((-?[\d.]+),\s*([\d.]+)%,\s*([\d.]+)%,\s*([\d.]+))
      • e.g. hsla(200, 20%, 50%, 0.5)
  • Color name
    • Options are listed in SkParseColor.cpp
    • Similar to CSS Color Module Level 3 keywords, but case-sensitive.
      • e.g. blueviolet or red

Note: Hex format with alpha takes AARRGGBB or ARGB, not RRGGBBA or RGA.