PermissionStatus

Available in workers

The PermissionStatus interface of the Permissions API provides the state of an object and an event handler for monitoring changes to said state.

Instance properties

• name Read only
  • : Returns the name of a requested permission, identical to the name passed to query.
• state Read only
  • : Returns the state of a requested permission; one of 'granted', 'denied', or 'prompt'.

Events

• change
  • : Invoked upon changes to PermissionStatus.state.

Example

navigator.permissions
  .query({ name: "geolocation" })
  .then((permissionStatus) => {
    console.log(`geolocation permission status is ${permissionStatus.state}`);
    permissionStatus.onchange = () => {
      console.log(
        `geolocation permission status has changed to ${permissionStatus.state}`,
      );
    };
  });

Specifications

Browser compatibility