MessageEvent.data

The data read-only property of the MessageEvent interface represents the data sent by the message emitter.

Syntax

var data = messageEvent.data;

Value

The data sent by the message emitter; this can be any data type.

Example

myWorker.onmessage = function(e) {
  result.textContent = e.data;
  console.log('Message received from worker');
};

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard (HTML) # dom-messageevent-data-dev

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also

ExtendableMessageEvent — similar to this interface but used in interfaces that needs to give more flexibility to authors.