Notification: icon 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.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The icon read-only property of the Notification interface contains the URL of an icon to be displayed as part of the notification, as specified in the icon option of the Notification() constructor.

Value

A string.

Examples

In our To-do list app (view the app running live), we use the Notification() constructor to fire a notification, passing it arguments to specify the body, icon and title we want.

js
const notification = new Notification("To do list", {
  body: text,
  icon: img,
});

Specifications

Specification
Notifications API
# dom-notification-icon

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
icon
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 33 (Release date: 2014-02-20)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 14 (Release date: 2016-08-02)
footnote Full support
Firefox – Full support
Firefox 26 (Release date: 2013-12-10)
footnote Full support
Opera – Full support
Opera 23 (Release date: 2014-07-22)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote
footnote The property can be set, but has no effect.
footnote See bug 280162
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 42 (Release date: 2015-04-15)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – Full support
Firefox for Android 26 (Release date: 2013-12-10)
footnote Full support
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 29 (Release date: 2015-04-28)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote
footnote The property can be set, but has no effect.
footnote See bug 280162
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 4 (Release date: 2016-03-11)
footnote Full support
WebView Android – No support
WebView Android
footnote
footnote See bug 40443309
WebView on iOS – No support
WebView on iOS
footnote No support

Legend

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Full support
Full support
No support
No support
See implementation notes.

See also