PublicKeyCredential: id property

Secure context

The id read-only property of the PublicKeyCredential interface is a string, inherited from Credential, which represents the identifier of the current PublicKeyCredential instance.

This property is a base64url encoded version of rawId.

[!NOTE] This property may only be used in top-level contexts and will not be available in an <iframe> for example.

Value

A string being the base64url encoded version of rawId.

Examples

const publicKey = {
  challenge: new Uint8Array(26) /* this actually is given from the server */,
  rp: {
    name: "Example CORP",
    id: "login.example.com",
  },
  user: {
    id: new Uint8Array(26) /* To be changed for each user */,
    name: "canand@example.com",
    displayName: "Carina Anand",
  },
  pubKeyCredParams: [
    {
      type: "public-key",
      alg: -7,
    },
  ],
};

navigator.credentials
  .create({ publicKey })
  .then((newCredentialInfo) => {
    const id = newCredentialInfo.id;
    // Do something with the id

    // send attestation response and client extensions
    // to the server to proceed with the registration
    // of the credential
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(err);
  });

Specifications

Browser compatibility

See also

• id