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The forget() method of the HIDDevice interface closes the connection to the HID device and forgets the device.
forget()
None.
A Promise that resolves with undefined once the connection is closed, the device is forgotten, and the permission is reset.
In the following example we connect to a Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Right HID device, blink once, and disconnect from it.
async function blink() {
const devices = await navigator.hid.requestDevice({
filters: [
{
vendorId: 0x057e, // Nintendo Co., Ltd
productId: 0x2007, // Joy-Con Right
},
],
});
const device = devices[0];
await device.open();
// Turn off
await device.sendFeatureReport(reportId, Uint32Array.from([0, 0]));
await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 100));
// Turn on
await device.sendFeatureReport(reportId, Uint32Array.from([512, 0]));
await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 100));
// Finally, disconnect from it
await device.forget();
}
blink();
| Specification |
|---|
| WebHID API> # dom-hiddevice-forget> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
forget |
100 | 100 | No | 86 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HIDDevice/forget