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  4. Notification()

Notification: Notification() constructor

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

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

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The Notification() constructor creates a new Notification object instance, which represents a user notification.

Trying to create a notification inside the ServiceWorkerGlobalScope using the Notification() constructor will throw a TypeError. Use ServiceWorkerRegistration.showNotification() instead.

You must first get permission before being able to display notifications, using Notification.requestPermission(). The permission may not be grantable, for example if the page is in private browsing mode.

This constructor throws a TypeError when called in nearly all mobile browsers and this is unlikely to change, because web pages on mobile devices almost never "run in the background", which is the main use case for notifications. Instead, you need to register a service worker and use ServiceWorkerRegistration.showNotification(). See Chrome issue for more information.

Syntax

js
new Notification(title)
new Notification(title, options)

Parameters

title

Defines a title for the notification, which is shown at the top of the notification window.

options Optional

An options object containing any custom settings that you want to apply to the notification. The possible options are:

actions Optional

Must be unspecified or an empty array. actions is only supported for persistent notifications fired from a service worker using ServiceWorkerRegistration.showNotification().

badge Optional

A string containing the URL of the image used to represent the notification when there isn't enough space to display the notification itself; for example, the Android Notification Bar. On Android devices, the badge should accommodate devices up to 4x resolution, about 96x96px, and the image will be automatically masked.

body Optional

A string representing the body text of the notification, which is displayed below the title. The default is the empty string.

data Optional

Arbitrary data that you want associated with the notification. This can be of any structured-clonable data type. The default is null.

dir Optional

The direction in which to display the notification. It defaults to auto, which just adopts the browser's language setting behavior, but you can override that behavior by setting values of ltr and rtl (although most browsers seem to ignore these settings.)

icon Optional

A string containing the URL of an icon to be displayed in the notification.

image Optional

A string containing the URL of an image to be displayed in the notification.

lang Optional

The notification's language, as specified using a string representing a BCP 47 language tag. The default is the empty string.

renotify Optional

A boolean value specifying whether the user should be notified after a new notification replaces an old one. The default is false, which means they won't be notified. If true, then tag also must be set.

requireInteraction Optional

Indicates that a notification should remain active until the user clicks or dismisses it, rather than closing automatically. The default value is false.

silent Optional

A boolean value specifying whether the notification should be silent, i.e., no sounds or vibrations should be issued regardless of the device settings. If set to true, the notification is silent; if set to null (the default value), the device's default settings are respected.

tag Optional

A string representing an identifying tag for the notification. The default is the empty string.

timestamp Optional

A timestamp, given as Unix time in milliseconds, representing the time associated with the notification. This could be in the past when a notification is used for a message that couldn't immediately be delivered because the device was offline, or in the future for a meeting that is about to start.

vibrate Optional

A vibration pattern for the device's vibration hardware to emit with the notification. If specified, silent must not be true.

Return value

An instance of the Notification object.

Exceptions

TypeError

Thrown if:

  • The constructor is called within the ServiceWorkerGlobalScope.
  • The actions option is specified and is not empty.
  • The silent option is true and the vibrate option is specified.
  • The renotify option is true but the tag option is empty.
DataCloneError DOMException

Thrown if serializing the data option failed for some reason.

Examples

Here is a most basic example to only show a notification if permission is already granted. For more complete examples, see the Notification page.

js
if (Notification.permission === "granted") {
  const notification = new Notification("Hi there!");
}

Specifications

Specification
Notifications API
# dom-notification-notification

Browser compatibility

See also

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