PermissionStatus

Baseline Widely available *

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2022.

* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The PermissionStatus interface of the Permissions API provides the state of an object and an event handler for monitoring changes to said state.

EventTarget PermissionStatus

Instance properties

PermissionStatus.name Read only

Returns the name of a requested permission, identical to the name passed to Permissions.query.

PermissionStatus.state Read only

Returns the state of a requested permission; one of 'granted', 'denied', or 'prompt'.

Events

change

Invoked upon changes to PermissionStatus.state.

Example

js
navigator.permissions
  .query({ name: "geolocation" })
  .then((permissionStatus) => {
    console.log(`geolocation permission status is ${permissionStatus.state}`);
    permissionStatus.onchange = () => {
      console.log(
        `geolocation permission status has changed to ${permissionStatus.state}`,
      );
    };
  });

Specifications

Specification
Permissions
# permissionstatus-interface

Browser compatibility