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PermissionStatus

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The PermissionStatus interface of the Permissions API provides the state of an object and an event handler for monitoring changes to said state.

EventTarget PermissionStatus

Properties

PermissionStatus.name Read only

Returns the name of a requested permission, identical to the name passed to Permissions.query.

PermissionStatus.state Read only

Returns the state of a requested permission; one of 'granted', 'denied', or 'prompt'.

PermissionStatus.status Read only

Returns the state of a requested permission; one of 'granted', 'denied', or 'prompt'. Later versions of the specification replace this with PermissionStatus.state.

Events

change

An event called whenever PermissionStatus.status changes.

Example

navigator.permissions.query({name:'geolocation'}).then(function(permissionStatus) {
  console.log('geolocation permission status is ', permissionStatus.state);
  permissionStatus.onchange = function() {
    console.log('geolocation permission status has changed to ', this.state);
  };
});

Specifications

Specification
Permissions
# permissionstatus-interface

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
PermissionStatus
43
79
46
No
30
No
No
See bug 490120.
43
46
30
No
4.0
change_event
43
79
46
No
30
No
No
43
46
30
No
4.0
name
No
No
93
No
No
No
No
No
93
No
No
No
state
44
43-44
79
46
No
31
30-31
No
No
44
43-44
46
32
30-32
No
4.0

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/PermissionStatus

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Last Updated 2022-04-27T09:33:08Z