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Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The onmessage property of the ServiceWorkerContainer interface is an event handler fired whenever a message event occurs — when incoming messages are received to the ServiceWorkerContainer object (e.g., via a MessagePort.postMessage() call).
Note: Messages sent to service worker contexts (e.g. as the event object of onmessage) are represented by MessageEvent objects in modern browsers, for consistency with other web messaging features. (They used to be represented by ServiceWorkerMessageEvent objects, which have now been deprecated.)
Syntax
ServiceWorkerContainer.onmessage = function(messageevent) { ... }
Example
// TBD
Specifications
| Specification | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Service Workers The definition of 'ServiceWorkerContainer: onmessage' in that specification. |
Working Draft | Initial definition. |
Browser compatibility
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| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
onmessage | Chrome Full support 40 | Edge
Full support
17
| Firefox
Full support
44
| IE No support No | Opera Full support 27 | Safari Full support 11.1 | WebView Android Full support 40 | Chrome Android Full support 40 | Firefox Android Full support 44 | Opera Android Full support 27 | Safari iOS Full support 11.1 | Samsung Internet Android Full support 4.0 |
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- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
- See implementation notes.
- See implementation notes.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
- User must explicitly enable this feature.
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