This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2022.
Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The mode read-only property of the Lock interface returns the access mode passed to LockManager.request() when the lock was requested. The mode is either "exclusive" (the default) or "shared".
One of "exclusive" or "shared".
The following examples show how the mode property is passed in the call to LockManager.request(). LockManager is the object returned by navigator.locks.
// Should show "exclusive" (the default)
navigator.locks.request("my_resource", show_lock_properties);
// Should show "exclusive"
navigator.locks.request(
"my_resource",
{ mode: "exclusive" },
show_lock_properties,
);
// Should show "shared"
navigator.locks.request(
"my_resource",
{ mode: "shared" },
show_lock_properties,
);
function show_lock_properties(lock) {
console.log(`The lock name is: ${lock.name}`);
console.log(`The lock mode is: ${lock.mode}`);
}
| Specification |
|---|
| Web Locks API> # dom-lock-mode> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
mode |
69 | 79 | 96 | 56 | 15.4 | 69 | 96 | 48 | 15.4 | 10.0 | 69 | 15.4 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Lock/mode