GamepadButton: pressed property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The GamepadButton.pressed property of the GamepadButton interface returns a boolean indicating whether the button is currently pressed (true) or unpressed (false).

Examples

js
let gp = navigator.getGamepads()[0]; // Get the first gamepad object

if (gp.buttons[0].pressed) {
  // respond to button being pressed
}

Value

A boolean value.

Specifications

Specification
Gamepad
# dom-gamepadbutton-pressed

Browser compatibility

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See also