ContactAddress: recipient property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The read-only recipient property of the ContactAddress interface returns a string containing the name of the recipient, purchaser, or contact person at the address.

Value

A string giving the name of the person, or the name of a contact person in other contexts. If no name is available, this string is empty.

Specifications

Specification
Contact Picker API
# dom-contactaddress-recipient

Browser compatibility

desktop mobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
recipient
Experimental
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote
footnote See bug 1756767
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 84 (Release date: 2020-07-27)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote
footnote See bug 1756767
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 60 (Release date: 2020-09-23)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Partial support
Samsung Internet 14 – 21 (Release date: 2021-04-17)
footnote Removed in 22 and later
footnote Partial support
footnote This API was exposed but failed upon opening a contact selector.
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 84 (Release date: 2020-07-27)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
Partial support
Partial support
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
See implementation notes.