FormData: has() method

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 has() method of the FormData interface returns whether a FormData object contains a certain key.

Syntax

js
has(name)

Parameters

name

A string representing the name of the key you want to test for.

Return value

true if a key of FormData matches the specified name. Otherwise, false.

Examples

The following snippet shows the results of testing for the existence of username in a FormData object, before and after appending a username value to it with append():

js
formData.has("username"); // Returns false
formData.append("username", "Chris");
formData.has("username"); // Returns true

Specifications

Specification
XMLHttpRequest Standard
# dom-formdata-has

Browser compatibility

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See also