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MessageEvent: origin property - Web APIs | MDN
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MessageEvent: origin property
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The origin read-only property of the
MessageEvent interface is a string representing the
origin of the message emitter.
Value
A string representing the origin.
Examples
js
myWorker.onmessage = (e) => {
result.textContent = e.data;
console.log("Message received from worker");
console.log(e.origin);
};
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # dom-messageevent-origin-dev |
Browser compatibility
See also
ExtendableMessageEvent— similar to this interface but used in interfaces that needs to give more flexibility to authors.