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BroadcastChannel: name property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨March 2022⁩.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The name read-only property of the BroadcastChannel interface returns a string, which uniquely identifies the given channel with its name. This name is passed to the BroadcastChannel() constructor at creation time and is therefore read-only.

Values

A string.

Examples

// Connect to a channel
const bc = new BroadcastChannel("test_channel");

// More operations (like postMessage, …)

// Log the channel name to the console
console.log(bc.name); // "test_channel"

// When done, disconnect from the channel
bc.close();

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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name 54 79 38 41 15.4 54 38 41 15.4 6.0 54 15.4

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BroadcastChannel/name