DeviceMotionEventAcceleration: z property

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

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The z read-only property of the DeviceMotionEventAcceleration interface indicates the amount of acceleration that occurred along the Z axis in a DeviceMotionEventAcceleration object.

Value

A double indicating the amount of acceleration along the Z axis. See Accelerometer values explained for details.

Specification
Device Orientation and Motion # dom-devicemotioneventacceleration-z

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`z`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 31 (Release date: 2013-11-12) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 6 (Release date: 2011-08-16) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 18 (Release date: 2013-11-19) footnote Full support	Safari – No support Safari footnote No support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 31 (Release date: 2013-11-14) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 6 (Release date: 2011-08-16) footnote Full support	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 18 (Release date: 2013-11-20) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 4.2 (Release date: 2010-11-22) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 2 (Release date: 2014-10-17) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 4.4.3 (Release date: 2014-06-02) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – No support WebView on iOS footnote No support

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