The read-only BroadcastChannel.name property returns a string, which uniquely identifies the given channel with its name. This name is passed to the BroadcastChannel() constructor at creation time and is therefore read-only.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers
A string.
js
// Connect to a channel
const bc = new BroadcastChannel("test_channel");
// More operations (like postMessage, …)
// Log the channel name to the console
console.log(bc.name); // "test_channel"
// When done, disconnect from the channel
bc.close();
| Specification |
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| HTML Standard # dom-broadcastchannel-name-dev |
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54 | 79 | 38 | No | 41 | 15.4 | 54 | 54 | 38 | 41 | 15.4 | 6.0 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BroadcastChannel/name