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Fullscreen API Standard

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Last GitHub push: Jul 17, 2026
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Allow `requestFullscreen` after page reloaded (same session, if it had `document.fullscreenElement` in the previous document) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#262 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2026
Specify implicit keyboard lock on fullscreen? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

whatwg/fullscreen#260 · 2 comments · Opened May 7, 2026
Upstream Document Picture-in-Picture Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#258 · Opened Mar 24, 2026
Spec Bug in `exitFullscreen()` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#248 · 1 comment · Opened May 14, 2025
Missing tasks in parallel steps in Fullscreen API Standard Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

whatwg/fullscreen#240 · Opened Sep 9, 2024
How should UAs hide root element scrollbars? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#236 · 8 comments · Opened Jan 27, 2024
Entering fullscreen without transient activation Open

addition/proposal needs implementer interest

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#234 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 25, 2024
Document fullscreening vs. modal dialog Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

whatwg/fullscreen#227 · 7 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 13, 2023
Unfullscreening unconditionally removes from top layer, ignoring other qualities Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#222 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2023
::backdrop and :fullscreen now defined in CSS specs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#221 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 31, 2023
Broken references in Fullscreen API Standard Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#215 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 2, 2023
Root element behavior for top layer Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#213 · Opened Dec 20, 2022
Boosting brightness on fullscreen Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#198 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 28, 2021
Clarification for Accessibility requested Open

a11y-tracker accessibility

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whatwg/fullscreen#197 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2021
Define top layer behaviour with pointer-events: none; ancestors Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#196 · Opened Aug 20, 2021
It should be specified that fullscreen prevents the usual viewport sizing constraints from taking place Open

compat

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#191 · Opened Mar 6, 2021
can't change video orientation in fullscreen in desktop Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

whatwg/fullscreen#188 · Opened Dec 19, 2020
Requesting orientation lock when going fullscreen Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

whatwg/fullscreen#186 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 18, 2020
Requesting a wake lock when going fullscreen Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#185 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2020
how to disable esc and F11 key (when in fullscreen mode) to come out of fullscreen mode? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

whatwg/fullscreen#184 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 5, 2020
Internal iframe fullscreen event missing? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#179 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 8, 2020
css resize in fullscreen mode Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#171 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 4, 2020
Clarify backdrop/filter/paint behavior for Fullscreen API Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#165 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 18, 2020
Proposal: Supporting fullscreen requests in multi-screen environments. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

whatwg/fullscreen#161 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2019
How :fullscreen CSS pseudo class works in shadow dom? Open

topic: shadow

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#149 · 13 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2019
Re-introduce the hierarchy restrictions Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#140 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2018
Fullscreen position adjustment algorithm for documentElement Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#134 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2018
Deal with two fullscreen elements in top layer and one element being removed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#133 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2018
Ending fullscreen for popups Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#116 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 24, 2018
Consider forbidding <frame> element from entering fullscreen Open

addition/proposal

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

whatwg/fullscreen#112 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2018
The values of meta viewport attribute are not reflected when in full screen mode in android chrome browser. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#111 · 4 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Dec 23, 2017
Specify focus/tabbing order while in fullscreen Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#108 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 16, 2017
Removing the fullscreen element won't fire a fullscreenchange event Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#105 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2017
Option to "trap" the cursor inside the fullscreen window Open

addition/proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#99 · 20 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2017
Implementation without browser chrome Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

whatwg/fullscreen#96 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 1, 2017
requestFullscreen() + moving pending element can fire fullscreenerror but leave browser in fullscreen Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

whatwg/fullscreen#88 · 4 comments · Opened May 16, 2017
Problems with the "unloading document cleanup steps" Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#82 · 4 comments · Opened May 11, 2017
How does top layer interact with CSS isolation? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

whatwg/fullscreen#71 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2017
Introduce document.exitFullscreen({ fully: true })? Open

addition/proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#70 · 18 comments · Opened Dec 19, 2016
Decide on wanted behavior for request+exit or exit+request together Open

needs concrete proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#63 · 8 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2016
Fullscreen request on invisible document should be denied Open

needs concrete proposal

whatwg/fullscreen#58 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 29, 2016
Should browser UI be able to activate fullscreen even if iframe is missing allowfullscreen Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

whatwg/fullscreen#56 · 6 comments · Opened Sep 20, 2016
root element background propagation issue Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#40 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 16, 2016
Reserved keyboard shortcut behaviour in fullscreen Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#39 · 7 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2016
Document state change should be synced with dimensions change Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#37 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2016
Allow fullscreen on initial load of a page Open

addition/proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#36 · 24 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 30, 2016
The removing steps may leave descendant documents in fullscreen Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

whatwg/fullscreen#31 · Opened Oct 20, 2015
Exit fullscreen on document with multiple subdocument in fullscreen Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

whatwg/fullscreen#30 · 8 comments · Opened Oct 20, 2015
Cannot scroll in IE11 while in fullscreen by Fullscreen API Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

whatwg/fullscreen#23 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 15, 2015
Propose to always render elements in the top layer as if it is fixed positioned Open

addition/proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

whatwg/fullscreen#19 · 19 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2015

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