The read-only detail
property of the CustomEvent
interface returns any data passed when initializing the event.
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CustomEvent: detail property
Value
Whatever data the event was initialized with.
Example
js
// create custom events
const catFound = new CustomEvent("animalfound", {
detail: {
name: "cat",
},
});
const dogFound = new CustomEvent("animalfound", {
detail: {
name: "dog",
},
});
// add an appropriate event listener
obj.addEventListener("animalfound", (e) => console.log(e.detail.name));
// dispatch the events
obj.dispatchEvent(catFound);
obj.dispatchEvent(dogFound);
// "cat" and "dog" logged in the console
Specifications
Specification |
---|
DOM Standard # ref-for-dom-customevent-detail② |
Browser compatibility
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
detail |
5 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 11.6 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 1.0 |
See also
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CustomEvent/detail