Browser

Browser represents an instance of a Happy DOM browser. The API is similar to the API for Puppeteer and Playwright.

Signature

class Browser implements IBrowser

Example 1

import { Browser } from "happy-dom";

const browser = new Browser({
   navigator: {
      userAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HappyDOM/2.0.0'
   }
});
const page = browser.newPage();

await page.goto("https://example.com");

// Wait for all operations to complete
await page.waitUntilComplete();

await browser.close();

Example 2

import { Browser } from "happy-dom";

const browser = new Browser();
const page = browser.newPage();

page.url = 'https://example.com';
page.content = '<html><body>Hello world!</body></html>';

// Outputs "Hello world!"
console.log(page.mainFrame.document.body.textContent);

await browser.close();

Constructor

Parameter	Type	Description
options?	object	Browser options.
options.settings?	IOptionalBrowserSettings	Browser settings.
options.console?	Console	Console object. Each page will create an instance of VirtualConsole by default if not specified.

Properties

Property	Modifiers	Type	Description
contexts	readonly	BrowserContext[]	Browser contexts. Defaults to one main context.
settings	readonly	IBrowserSettings	Browser settings. The settings can be modified runtime.
console	readonly	Console	Console object sent in to the constructor.
defaultContext	readonly	BrowserContext	Default context.

Methods

Method	Return type	Description
close()	Promise<void>	Closes the browser.
waitUntilComplete()	Promise<void>	Waits for all ongoing operations to complete. This includes operations done inside loaded pages, such as loading resources and executing scripts.
abort()	Promise<void>	Aborts all ongoing operations.
newIncognitoContext()	BrowserContext	Creates a new incognito context.
newPage()	BrowserPage	Creates a new page.