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CropTarget

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Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The CropTarget interface of the Screen Capture API provides a static method, fromElement(), which returns a CropTarget instance that can be used to crop a captured video track to the area in which a specified element is rendered.

Static methods

fromElement()

Returns a CropTarget instance that can be used to crop a captured video track to the area in which a specified element is rendered.

Examples

js
// Options for getDisplayMedia()
const displayMediaOptions = {
  preferCurrentTab: true,
};

// Create crop target from DOM element
const demoElem = document.querySelector("#demo");
const cropTarget = await CropTarget.fromElement(demoElem);

// Capture video stream from user's webcam and isolate video track
const stream =
  await navigator.mediaDevices.getDisplayMedia(displayMediaOptions);
const [track] = stream.getVideoTracks();

// Crop video track
await track.cropTo(cropTarget);

// Broadcast cropped stream in <video> element
videoElem.srcObject = stream;

See Using the Element Capture and Region Capture APIs for in-context example code.

Specifications

Specification
Region Capture
# crop-target

Browser compatibility

See also

  • Screen Capture API
  • Using the Element Capture and Region Capture APIs

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