CommandEvent
Baseline
2025
Newly available
Since December 2025, this feature works across the latest devices and browser versions. This feature might not work in older devices or browsers.
The CommandEvent interface represents an event notifying the user when a button element with valid commandForElement and command attributes is about to invoke an interactive element.
This is the event object for the HTMLElement command event, which represents an action from an Invoker Control when it is invoked (for example when it is clicked or pressed).
Constructor
CommandEvent()-
Creates a
CommandEventobject.
Instance properties
This interface inherits properties from its parent, Event.
CommandEvent.sourceRead only-
An
HTMLButtonElementrepresenting the button that caused this invocation. CommandEvent.commandRead only-
A string representing the
commandvalue of the source button.
Examples
Basic example
html
<button commandfor="mypopover" command="show-popover">Show popover</button>
<div popover id="mypopover" role="[declare appropriate ARIA role]">
<!-- popover content here -->
<button commandfor="mypopover" command="hide-popover">Hide popover</button>
</div>
js
const popover = document.getElementById("mypopover");
// …
popover.addEventListener("command", (event) => {
if (event.command === "show-popover") {
console.log("Popover is about to be shown");
}
});
Using custom values for commands
In this example three buttons have been created with commands with custom values.
html
<div class="controls">
<button commandfor="the-image" command="--rotate-left">Rotate Left</button>
<button commandfor="the-image" command="--reset">Reset</button>
<button commandfor="the-image" command="--rotate-right">Rotate Right</button>
</div>
<img
id="the-image"
src="/shared-assets/images/examples/dino.svg"
alt="dinosaur head rotated 0 degrees" />
An event listener is attached to the image using the command event.
When one of the buttons is clicked, the listener runs code based on the custom command value assigned to the button, rotating the image and also updating it's alt text to indicate the new angle of the image.
js
const image = document.getElementById("the-image");
image.addEventListener("command", (event) => {
let rotate = parseInt(event.target.style.rotate || "0", 10);
if (event.command === "--reset") {
rotate = 0;
event.target.style.rotate = `${rotate}deg`;
} else if (event.command === "--rotate-left") {
rotate = rotate === -270 ? 0 : rotate - 90;
event.target.style.rotate = `${rotate}deg`;
} else if (event.command === "--rotate-right") {
rotate = rotate === 270 ? 0 : rotate + 90;
event.target.style.rotate = `${rotate}deg`;
}
event.target.alt = `dinosaur head rotated ${rotate} degrees`;
});
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