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PeriodicSyncEvent: tag property

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Limited availabilityAvailable in workers

The tag read-only property of the PeriodicSyncEvent interface returns the developer-defined identifier for the PeriodicSyncEvent. This is specified when calling the register() method of the PeriodicSyncManager interface. Multiple tags can be used by the web app to run different periodic tasks at different frequencies.

Value

Returns a String of the defined identifier.

Examples

The following example demonstrates listening for a periodic sync event in the service worker, and accessing the tag property.

self.addEventListener("periodicsync", (event) => {
  console.log(event.tag); // logs the events tag
});

Specifications

SpecificationsStandards references are available on the canonical MDN page.

Browser compatibility

Browser compatibilityCompatibility data is available on the canonical MDN page.

See also