CustomEvent: detail property

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 read-only detail property of the CustomEvent interface returns any data passed when initializing the event.

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",
  },
});

const element = document.createElement("div"); // create a <div> element

// add an appropriate event listener
element.addEventListener("animalfound", (e) => console.log(e.detail.name));

// dispatch the events
element.dispatchEvent(catFound);
element.dispatchEvent(dogFound);

// "cat" and "dog" logged in the console

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# ref-for-dom-customevent-detail②

Browser compatibility

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See also