MediaSession: setScreenshareActive() method

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The setScreenshareActive() method of the MediaSession interface is used to indicate to the user agent whether the user's screenshare is considered to be active.

Call this method on the navigator object's mediaSession object.

Note that the status of the screenshare is not tracked in the MediaSession itself, but must be tracked separately.

Syntax

js
setScreenshareActive(active)

Parameters

active

A boolean indicating whether the screenshare is considered active or not.

Return value

None (undefined).

Examples

Below is an example of updating the screenshare active state of the current MediaSession, as well as listening to requests to change the screenshare status with setActionHandler().

js
let screenshareActive = false;
navigator.mediaSession.setCameraActive(cameraActive);
navigator.mediaSession.setActionHandler("togglescreenshare", () => {
  screenshareActive = !screenshareActive;
  navigator.mediaSession.setCameraActive(screenshareActive);
});

Specifications

Specification
Media Session
# dom-mediasession-setscreenshareactive

Browser compatibility