Electron Documentation1.7.9

Class: BrowserView

Create and control views.

Note: The BrowserView API is currently experimental and may change or be removed in future Electron releases.

Process: Main

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.

Example

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

let win = new BrowserWindow({width: 800, height: 600})
win.on('closed', () => {
  win = null
})

let view = new BrowserView({
  webPreferences: {
    nodeIntegration: false
  }
})
win.setBrowserView(view)
view.setBounds({ x: 0, y: 0, width: 300, height: 300 })
view.webContents.loadURL('https://electron.atom.io')

new BrowserView([options]) Experimental

• options Object (optional)
  • webPreferences Object (optional) - See BrowserWindow.

Static Methods

BrowserView.fromId(id)

• id Integer

Returns BrowserView - The view with the given id.

Instance Properties

Objects created with new BrowserView have the following properties:

view.webContents Experimental

A WebContents object owned by this view.

view.id Experimental

A Integer representing the unique ID of the view.

Instance Methods

Objects created with new BrowserView have the following instance methods:

view.setAutoResize(options) Experimental

• options Object
  • width Boolean - If true, the view’s width will grow and shrink together with the window. false by default.
  • height Boolean - If true, the view’s height will grow and shrink together with the window. false by default.

view.setBounds(bounds) Experimental

• bounds Rectangle

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

view.setBackgroundColor(color) Experimental

• color String - Color in #aarrggbb or #argb form. The alpha channel is optional.