CustomEvent: detail property

The read-only detail property of the {{domxref("CustomEvent")}} interface returns any data passed when initializing the event.

Value

Whatever data the event was initialized with.

Example

// create custom events
const catFound = new CustomEvent("animalfound", {
  detail: {
    name: "cat",
  },
});
const dogFound = new CustomEvent("animalfound", {
  detail: {
    name: "dog",
  },
});

const element = document.createElement("div"); // create a <div> element

// add an appropriate event listener
element.addEventListener("animalfound", (e) => console.log(e.detail.name));

// dispatch the events
element.dispatchEvent(catFound);
element.dispatchEvent(dogFound);

// "cat" and "dog" logged in the console

Value

Example

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also