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WebGLTexture

The WebGLTexture interface is part of the WebGL API and represents an opaque texture object providing storage and state for texturing operations.

Description

The WebGLTexture object does not define any methods or properties of its own and its content is not directly accessible. When working with WebGLTexture objects, the following methods of the WebGLRenderingContext are useful:

Examples

Creating a texture

var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
var gl = canvas.getContext('webgl');
var texture = gl.createTexture();

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
WebGL 1.0 The definition of 'WebGLTexture' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition.

Browser compatibilityUpdate compatibility data on GitHub

	Desktop
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
Basic support	9	12	4	11	12	5.1
Available in workers	No	No	44 Disabled 44 Disabled Disabled From version 44: this feature is behind the `gfx.offscreencanvas.enabled` preference (needs to be set to `true`). To change preferences in Firefox, visit about:config.	No	No	No