Gamepad: connected property
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since March 2017.
The connected read-only property of the Gamepad interface returns a boolean indicating whether the gamepad is still connected to the system.
If the gamepad is connected, the value is true; if not, it is
false.
Value
A boolean.
Examples
js
const gp = navigator.getGamepads()[0];
console.log(gp.connected);
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| Gamepad # dom-gamepad-connected |