DiagnosticsBrowser object

An object which gives access to browser-related properties and events.

Note These APIs can only be used with F12 developer tools and the Diagnostics Script Engine, and can't be called from JavaScript.

Syntax

 var oBrowser = DiagnosticsGlobalScope.browser;

The DiagnosticsBrowser does not inherit from any class or interface.

The DiagnosticsBrowser object has these types of members:

The DiagnosticsBrowser object has these methods.

Method	Description
addEventListener	Registers an event listener of the given type to the object.
createSafeFunction	Returns a function wrapping the passed-in function.
executeScript	Synchronously runs a script in the WebWorkerDiagnosticsDiagnostics object model.
highlightElement	Displays a highlighting box and rules for a given element, using CSS colors passed in string form for each of the box-model regions.
refresh	Refreshes the current page.
removeEventListener	Unregisters a previously registered event listener of the given type.
takeVisualSnapshot	Takes a screen capture of the current document.

The DiagnosticsBrowser object has these properties.

Property	Access type	Description
browserMode	Read-only	Returns the browser mode.
defaultDocumentMode	Read-only	Returns the default document mode for the browser.
document	Read-only	Provides access the current document.
documentMode	Read-only	Returns the current document mode.
documentModeOverride	Read/write	Gets or sets the document-mode emulation state.
elementSelectionEventsEnabled	Read/write	Sets or gets the firing of the selectElement and hoverElement events.
forceEdgeModeDocumentFamily	Read/write	Sets or gets whether document mode is forced to be edge.
workers	Read-only	Returns an object where the keys are the ids of the currently running webworkers and the values are instances of DiagnosticsWebWorker.
workerStartupScript	Read/write	Gets or sets the worker startup script.