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Gamepad: id 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 2017⁩.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The Gamepad.id property of the Gamepad interface returns a string containing some information about the controller.

The exact syntax is not strictly specified, but in Firefox it will contain three pieces of information separated by dashes (-):

  • Two 4-digit hexadecimal strings containing the USB vendor and product id of the controller
  • The name of the controller as provided by the driver.

For example, a PS2 controller returned 810-3-USB Gamepad.

This information is intended to allow you to find a mapping for the controls on the device as well as display useful feedback to the user.

Value

A string primitive.

Examples

window.addEventListener("gamepadconnected", () => {
  const gp = navigator.getGamepads()[0];
  gamepadInfo.textContent = `Gamepad connected at index ${gp.index}: ${gp.id}.`;
});

Specifications

Specification
Gamepad>
# dom-gamepad-id>

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
id 21 12 29 15 10.1 25 32 14 10.3 1.5 4.4 10.3

See also

Using the Gamepad API

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Gamepad/id