The read-only detail property of the CustomEvent interface returns any data passed when initializing the event. 
 The read-only detail property of the CustomEvent interface returns any data passed when initializing the event. 
Whatever data the event was initialized with.
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// create custom events const catFound = new CustomEvent("animalfound", { detail: { name: "cat", }, }); const dogFound = new CustomEvent("animalfound", { detail: { name: "dog", }, }); // add an appropriate event listener obj.addEventListener("animalfound", (e) => console.log(e.detail.name)); // dispatch the events obj.dispatchEvent(catFound); obj.dispatchEvent(dogFound); // "cat" and "dog" logged in the console
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| DOM Standard  # ref-for-dom-customevent-detail②  | 
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5 | 12 | 6 | 9 | 11.6 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 1.0 | 
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