PermissionStatus
Baseline
Widely available
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This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since September 2022.
* Some parts of this feature may have varying levels of support.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The PermissionStatus interface of the Permissions API provides the state of an object and an event handler for monitoring changes to said state.
Instance properties
PermissionStatus.nameRead only-
Returns the name of a requested permission, identical to the
namepassed toPermissions.query. PermissionStatus.stateRead only-
Returns the state of a requested permission; one of
'granted','denied', or'prompt'.
Events
change-
Invoked upon changes to
PermissionStatus.state.
Example
js
navigator.permissions
.query({ name: "geolocation" })
.then((permissionStatus) => {
console.log(`geolocation permission status is ${permissionStatus.state}`);
permissionStatus.onchange = () => {
console.log(
`geolocation permission status has changed to ${permissionStatus.state}`,
);
};
});
Specifications
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- Full support
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- Partial support
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- No support
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- See implementation notes.
- Uses a non-standard name
- Has more compatibility info.