Scheduling

{{SeeCompatTable}}{{APIRef("Prioritized Task Scheduling API")}}

The Scheduling object provides methods and properties to control scheduling tasks within the current document.

[!WARNING] The Scheduling interface has been superseded by the {{domxref("Scheduler")}} interface, the features of which are better designed for addressing scheduling tasks. See Don't use isInputPending() for more details.

Instance methods

• {{domxref("Scheduling.isInputPending", "isInputPending()")}} {{Experimental_Inline}}
  • : Returns a boolean that indicates whether there are pending input events in the event queue, meaning that the user is attempting to interact with the page.

Example

See the {{domxref("Scheduling.isInputPending()")}} page for a full example.

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• {{domxref("Scheduler")}} interface
• {{domxref("Prioritized_task_scheduling_api", "Prioritized Task Scheduling API", "", "nocode")}}
• Faster input events with Facebook's first browser API contribution on engineering.fb.com (2019)
• Better JS scheduling with isInputPending() on developer.chrome.com (2020)
• Optimizing long tasks on web.dev (2022)