Page visibility

The document.visibilityState and document.hidden properties tell you whether the page is visible to the user (for example, it's not minimized or in a background tab).

Baseline Status: Achieved Widely Available on Jan 29, 2018 (Cross-browser Newly Available since Jul 29, 2015).

Desktop Browser Engine Support

Google Chrome

33

Supported

Mozilla Firefox

18

Supported

Apple Safari

7

Supported

Microsoft Edge

12

Supported

Mobile Browser Engine Support

Chrome Android

33

Firefox Android

18

Safari iOS

7

Specifications and References

Specification ↗ Can I Use (pagevisibility) ↗ Feature XML ↗

MDN Browser Compat Data Keys:

api.Document.hidden ↗ api.Document.visibilityState ↗ api.Document.visibilitychange_event ↗