CommandEvent: command property

{{APIRef("Invoker Commands API")}}

The command read-only property of the {{domxref("CommandEvent")}} interface returns a string containing the value of the {{domxref("HTMLButtonElement.command", "command")}} property at the time the event was dispatched.

Value

A string.

Examples

In the following simple example we've set up an event listener to listen for the "show-modal" command:

document.body.addEventListener(
  "command",
  (event) => {
    const theAction = event.command;

    if (theAction === "show-modal") {
      console.log("Showing modal dialog");
    }
  },
  { capture: true },
);

Specifications

{{Specifications}}

Browser compatibility

{{Compat}}

See also

• {{domxref("Invoker Commands API", "Invoker Commands API", "", "nocode")}}
• {{domxref("HTMLButtonElement.command")}}
• {{domxref("HTMLButtonElement.commandForElement")}}