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MIDIPort: state property

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

Value

A string containing the state of the port, one of:

"disconnected"

The device that this MIDIPort represents is disconnected from the system.

"connected"

The device that this MIDIPort represents is currently connected.

Examples

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

js

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

Specifications

Browser compatibility

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state 43 79 108 No 30 No 43 43 No 30 No 4.0

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