This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The text() method of the Request interface reads the request body and returns it as a promise that resolves with a String. The response is always decoded using UTF-8.
text()
None.
A Promise that resolves with a String.
const text = "Hello world";
const request = new Request("/myEndpoint", {
method: "POST",
body: text,
});
request.text().then((text) => {
// do something with the text sent in the request
});
| Specification |
|---|
| Fetch> # ref-for-dom-body-text①> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
text |
42 | 14 | 39 | 29 | 10.1 | 42 | 39 | 29 | 10.3 | 4.0 | 42 | 10.3 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Request/text