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MIDIPort: connection property

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The connection read-only property of the MIDIPort interface returns the connection state of the port.

Value

Returns a string containing the connection state of the port, one of:

"open"

The device that this MIDIPort represents has been opened and is available.

"closed"

The device that this MIDIPort represents has not been opened, or has been closed.

"pending"

The device that this MIDIPort represents has been opened but has subsequently disconnected.

Examples

The following example loops through all input ports and prints the connection status of each to the console.

js

for (const entry of midiAccess.inputs) {
  const input = entry[1];
  console.log(input.connection);
}

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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connection 43 79 108 No 30 No 43 43 No 30 No 4.0

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