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HTMLDialogElement: close event

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨March 2022⁩.

The close event is fired on an HTMLDialogElement object when the <dialog> it represents has been closed.

This event is not cancelable and does not bubble.

Syntax

Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.

addEventListener("close", (event) => { })

onclose = (event) => { }

Event type

A generic Event.

Examples

Live example

HTML

<dialog class="example-dialog">
  <form method="dialog">
    <button>Close via method="dialog"</button>
  </form>
  <button class="close">Close via .close() method</button>
  <p>Or hit the <kbd>Esc</kbd> key</p>
</dialog>

<button class="open-dialog">Open dialog</button>

<div class="result"></div>

JavaScript

const result = document.querySelector(".result");

const dialog = document.querySelector(".example-dialog");
dialog.addEventListener("close", (event) => {
  result.textContent = "dialog was closed";
});

const openDialog = document.querySelector(".open-dialog");
openDialog.addEventListener("click", () => {
  dialog.showModal();
  result.textContent = "";
});

const closeButton = document.querySelector(".close");
closeButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
  dialog.close();
});

Result

Specifications

Specification
HTML> # event-close>

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
`close_event`	37	79	98	24	15.4	37	98	24	15.4	3.0	37	15.4