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GamepadButton: pressed 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 GamepadButton.pressed property of the GamepadButton interface returns a boolean indicating whether the button is currently pressed (true) or unpressed (false).

Examples

let gp = navigator.getGamepads()[0]; // Get the first gamepad object

if (gp.buttons[0].pressed) {
  // respond to button being pressed
}

Value

A boolean value.

Specifications

Specification
Gamepad>
# dom-gamepadbutton-pressed>

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

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GamepadButton/pressed