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Notification: body property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

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 body read-only property of the Notification interface indicates the body string of the notification, as specified in the body option of the Notification() constructor.

Value

A string.

Examples

function spawnNotification(theBody, theIcon, theTitle) {
  const options = {
    body: theBody,
    icon: theIcon,
  };
  const n = new Notification(theTitle, options);

  console.log(n.body);
}

Specifications

Specification
Notifications API>
# dom-notification-body>

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
body 33 14 26 23 11 42 26 29 16.4 4.0 No No

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notification/body