This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Note: This feature is only available in Web Workers.
The online event of the WorkerGlobalScope fires when the device reconnects to the internet.
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.
addEventListener("online", (event) => { })
ononline = (event) => { }
A generic Event.
The following code snippet shows an onoffline handler set inside a worker:
self.ononline = () => {
console.log("Your worker is now online");
};
The same snippet, but using addEventListener():
self.addEventListener("online", () => {
console.log("Your worker is now online");
});
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # handler-workerglobalscope-ononline> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
online_event |
No | No | 29 | No | 8 | No | 29 | No | 8 | No | No | 8 |
The WorkerGlobalScope interface it belongs to.
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WorkerGlobalScope/online_event