Gamepad: connected property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.

The Gamepad.connected property of the Gamepad interface returns a boolean indicating whether the gamepad is still connected to the system.

If the gamepad is connected, the value is true; if not, it is false.

Value

A boolean.

const gp = navigator.getGamepads()[0];
console.log(gp.connected);

Specification
Gamepad # dom-gamepad-connected

	desktop					mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Opera	Safari	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet	WebView Android	WebView on iOS
`connected`	Chrome – Full support Chrome 25 (Release date: 2013-02-21) footnote Full support	Edge – Full support Edge 12 (Release date: 2015-07-29) footnote Full support	Firefox – Full support Firefox 29 (Release date: 2014-04-29) footnote Full support	Opera – Full support Opera 15 (Release date: 2013-07-02) footnote Full support	Safari – Full support Safari 10.1 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support	Chrome Android – Full support Chrome Android 25 (Release date: 2013-02-27) footnote Full support	Firefox for Android – Full support Firefox for Android 32 (Release date: 2014-09-02) footnote Full support	Opera Android – Full support Opera Android 14 (Release date: 2013-05-21) footnote Full support	Safari on iOS – Full support Safari on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support	Samsung Internet – Full support Samsung Internet 1.5 (Release date: 2013-09-25) footnote Full support	WebView Android – Full support WebView Android 4.4 (Release date: 2013-12-09) footnote Full support	WebView on iOS – Full support WebView on iOS 10.3 (Release date: 2017-03-27) footnote Full support

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