Animation.replaceState

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

The read-only Animation.replaceState property of the Web Animations API returns the replace state of the animation. This will be active if the animation has been removed, or persisted if Animation.persist() has been invoked on it.

Syntax

let myReplaceState = Animation.replaceState;

Value

A string that represents the replace state of the animation. The value can be one of:

  • active: The initial value of the animation's replace state; when the animation has been removed by the browser's Automatically removing filling animations behavior.
  • persisted: The animation has been explicitly persisted by invoking Animation.persist() on it.
  • removed: The animation has been explicitly removed.

Examples

In our simple replace indefinite animations demo, you can see the following code:

const divElem = document.querySelector('div');

document.body.addEventListener('mousemove', evt => {
  let anim = divElem.animate(
    { transform: `translate(${ evt.clientX}px, ${evt.clientY}px)` },
    { duration: 500, fill: 'forwards' }
  );

  anim.commitStyles();

  //anim.persist()

  anim.onremove = function() {
    console.log('Animation removed');
  }

  console.log(anim.replaceState);
});

Here we have a <div> element, and an event listener that fires the event handler code whenever the mouse moves. The event handler sets up an animation that animates the <div> element to the position of the mouse pointer. This could result in a huge animations list, which could create a memory leak. For this reason, modern browsers automatically remove overriding forward filling animations.

You can see the replaceState of the animation being logged at the end of the handler. This will be active for each animation by default, or persisted if the persist() call is uncommented.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
replaceState
84
84
75
No
70
13.1
No
84
79
60
13.4
14.0

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Animation/replaceState