MessageEvent: data 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 data
read-only property of the
MessageEvent
interface represents the data sent by the message emitter.
Value
The data sent by the message emitter; this can be any data type, depending on what originated this event.
Examples
js
myWorker.onmessage = (e) => {
result.textContent = e.data;
console.log("Message received from worker");
};
Specifications
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See also
ExtendableMessageEvent
— similar to this interface but used in interfaces that needs to give more flexibility to authors.