The terminate() method of the Worker interface immediately terminates the Worker. This does not offer the worker an opportunity to finish its operations; it is stopped at once.
The terminate() method of the Worker interface immediately terminates the Worker. This does not offer the worker an opportunity to finish its operations; it is stopped at once.
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terminate()
None.
None (undefined).
The following code snippet shows creation of a Worker object using the Worker() constructor, which is then immediately terminated.
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const myWorker = new Worker("worker.js"); myWorker.terminate();
Note: DedicatedWorkers and SharedWorkers can also be stopped from the Worker instance using the DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope.close() or SharedWorkerGlobalScope.close() methods.
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| HTML Standard  # dom-worker-terminate-dev  | 
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terminate | 
2 | 12 | 3.5 | 10 | 10.6 | 4 | 4.4 | 18 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 1.0 | 
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