Request: text() method

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.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The text() method of the Request interface reads the request body and returns it as a promise that resolves with a String. The response is always decoded using UTF-8.

Syntax

js
text()

Parameters

None.

Return value

A Promise that resolves with a String.

Examples

js
const text = "Hello world";

const request = new Request("/myEndpoint", {
  method: "POST",
  body: text,
});

request.text().then((text) => {
  // do something with the text sent in the request
});

Specifications

Specification
Fetch
# ref-for-dom-body-text①

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
text

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Full support
Full support

See also