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NDEFMessage

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 NDEFMessage interface of the Web NFC API represents the content of an NDEF message that has been read from or could be written to an NFC tag. An instance is acquired by calling the NDEFMessage() constructor or from the NDEFReadingEvent.message property, which is passed to the reading event.

Constructor

NDEFMessage()

Creates a new NDEFMessage object, initialized with the given NDEF records.

Attributes

NDEFMessage.records Read only

Returns the list of NDEF records contained in the message.

Specifications

Specification
Web NFC
# dom-ndefmessage

Browser compatibility

Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
NDEFMessage
Experimental
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 63 (Release date: 2021-04-16)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 15 (Release date: 2021-08-13)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support
NDEFMessage() constructor
Experimental
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 63 (Release date: 2021-04-16)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 15 (Release date: 2021-08-13)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support
records
Experimental
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 63 (Release date: 2021-04-16)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 15 (Release date: 2021-08-13)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support
Secure context required
Experimental
Chrome – No support
Chrome
footnote No support
Edge – No support
Edge
footnote No support
Firefox – No support
Firefox
footnote No support
Opera – No support
Opera
footnote No support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android
footnote No support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 63 (Release date: 2021-04-16)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 15 (Release date: 2021-08-13)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – Full support
WebView Android 89 (Release date: 2021-03-02)
footnote Full support
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support

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Full support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.

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