BroadcastChannel: name property

Available in workers

The name read-only property of the BroadcastChannel interface returns a string, which uniquely identifies the given channel with its name. This name is passed to the BroadcastChannel() constructor at creation time and is therefore read-only.

Values

A string.

Examples

// Connect to a channel
const bc = new BroadcastChannel("test_channel");

// More operations (like postMessage, …)

// Log the channel name to the console
console.log(bc.name); // "test_channel"

// When done, disconnect from the channel
bc.close();

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• BroadcastChannel, the interface it belongs to.