CustomEvent

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The CustomEvent interface represents events initialized by an application for any purpose.

Note: If used to attempt to communicate between a web extension content script and a web page script, a non-string detail property throws with "Permission denied to access property" in Firefox. To avoid this issue clone the object. See Share objects with page scripts for more information.

Event CustomEvent

Constructor

CustomEvent()

Creates a new CustomEvent.

Instance properties

This interface inherits properties from its parent, Event.

CustomEvent.detail Read only

Returns any data passed when initializing the event.

Instance methods

This interface inherits methods from its parent, Event.

CustomEvent.initCustomEvent() Deprecated

Initializes a CustomEvent object. If the event has already been dispatched, this method does nothing.

Specifications

Specification
DOM
# interface-customevent

Browser compatibility

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desktopmobileserver
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
Deno
Node.js
CustomEvent
CustomEvent() constructor
detail
initCustomEvent
Deprecated
Available in workers

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Deprecated. Not for use in new websites.

See also