This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.
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The GamepadEvent.gamepad property of the GamepadEvent interface returns a Gamepad object, providing access to the associated gamepad data for fired gamepadconnected and gamepaddisconnected events.
A Gamepad object.
The gamepad property being called on a fired gamepadconnected event.
window.addEventListener("gamepadconnected", (e) => {
console.log(
"Gamepad connected at index %d: %s. %d buttons, %d axes.",
e.gamepad.index,
e.gamepad.id,
e.gamepad.buttons.length,
e.gamepad.axes.length,
);
});
| Specification |
|---|
| Gamepad> # dom-gamepadevent-gamepad> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
gamepad |
21 | 12 | 29 | 15 | 10.1 | 25 | 32 | 14 | 10.3 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 10.3 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GamepadEvent/gamepad