MessageEvent: data property - Web APIs | MDN

Value

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

Examples

js

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

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-messageevent-data-dev

Browser compatibility

See also

  • ExtendableMessageEvent — similar to this interface but used in interfaces that needs to give more flexibility to authors.

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