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Accelerometer: x property

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Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The x read-only property of the Accelerometer interface returns a number specifying the acceleration of the device along its x-axis.

Value

A Number.

Examples

Acceleration is typically read in the reading event callback. In the example below this occurs sixty times a second.

js

const accelerometer = new Accelerometer({ frequency: 60 });

accelerometer.addEventListener("reading", (e) => {
  console.log(`Acceleration along the X-axis ${accelerometer.x}`);
  console.log(`Acceleration along the Y-axis ${accelerometer.y}`);
  console.log(`Acceleration along the Z-axis ${accelerometer.z}`);
});
accelerometer.start();

Specifications

Specification
Accelerometer
# accelerometer-x

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
x 67 79 No No 54 No 67 67 No 48 No 9.0

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Accelerometer/x