Notification: maxActions static property

Limited availability

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

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

The maxActions read-only static property of the Notification interface returns the maximum number of actions supported by the device and the User Agent. Effectively, this is the maximum number of elements in Notification.actions array which will be respected by the User Agent.

Value

An integer number which indicates the largest number of notification actions that can be presented to the user by the User Agent and the device.

Examples

The following snippet logs the maximum number of supported actions.

js
const maxActions = Notification.maxActions;
console.log(
  `This device can display at most ${maxActions} actions on each notification.`,
);

Specifications

Specification
Notifications API
# dom-notification-maxactions

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
maxActions static property
Experimental
Chrome – Full support
Chrome 48 (Release date: 2016-01-20)
footnote Full support
Edge – Full support
Edge 18 (Release date: 2018-10-02)
footnote Full support
Firefox – No support
Firefox 138 – 139 (Release date: 2025-04-29)
footnote Removed in 140 and later
Firefox – Preview support
Firefox Nightly
footnote Preview browser support
Opera – Full support
Opera 35 (Release date: 2016-02-02)
footnote Full support
Safari – No support
Safari
footnote No support
Chrome Android – Full support
Chrome Android 48 (Release date: 2016-01-26)
footnote Full support
Firefox for Android – No support
Firefox for Android 138 – 139 (Release date: 2025-04-29)
footnote Removed in 140 and later
Opera Android – Full support
Opera Android 35 (Release date: 2016-02-04)
footnote Full support
Safari on iOS – No support
Safari on iOS
footnote No support
Samsung Internet – Full support
Samsung Internet 5 (Release date: 2016-12-15)
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
In development. Supported in a pre-release version.
In development. Supported in a pre-release version.
No support
No support
Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
See implementation notes.
Has more compatibility info.

See also