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The progress event of the BackgroundFetchRegistration interface thrown when the associated background fetch progresses.
Practically, this event is fired when any of the following properties will return a new value:
uploaded,downloaded,result, orfailureReason.Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.
addEventListener("progress", (event) => { })
onprogress = (event) => { }
A generic Event with no added properties.
The following example demonstrates how to log the progress of a download. The code first checks that a downloadTotal was provided when the background fetch was registered. This is then used to calculate the percentage, based on the downloaded property.
bgFetch.addEventListener("progress", () => {
if (!bgFetch.downloadTotal) return;
const percent = Math.round(
(bgFetch.downloaded / bgFetch.downloadTotal) * 100,
);
console.log(`Download progress: ${percent}%`);
});
| Specification |
|---|
| Background Fetch> # background-fetch-registration-events> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
progress_event |
74 | 79 | No | 62 | No | 74 | No | 53 | No | 11.0 | No | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BackgroundFetchRegistration/progress_event