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The y read-only property of the Accelerometer interface returns a number specifying the acceleration of the device along its y-axis.
A Number.
Acceleration is typically read in the reading event callback. In the example below this occurs sixty times a second.
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();
| Specification |
|---|
| Accelerometer> # accelerometer-y> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
y |
67 | 79 | No | 54 | No | 67 | No | 48 | No | 9.0 | 67 | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Accelerometer/y