MessageEvent: data property

{{APIRef("HTML DOM")}}{{AvailableInWorkers}}

The data read-only property of the {{domxref("MessageEvent")}} interface represents the data sent by the message emitter.

Value

The data sent by the message emitter; this can be any data type, depending on what originated this event.

Examples

myWorker.onmessage = (e) => {
  result.textContent = e.data;
  console.log("Message received from worker");
};

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• {{domxref("ExtendableMessageEvent")}} — similar to this interface but used in interfaces that needs to give more flexibility to authors.