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console: clear() static method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The console.clear() static method clears the console if possible.

A graphical console, like those in web browsers, will remove all previous messages; a console displaying on a terminal, like the one in Node.js, will attempt to clear it using an escape code or system API; otherwise the method will have no effect (and no error).

Syntax

console.clear()

Parameters

None.

Return value

None (undefined).

Specifications

Specification
Console>
# clear>

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
clear_static 25 12 39 12 7 25 39 12 7 1.5 4.4 7

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/console/clear_static