WebGLContextEvent: statusMessage 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 read-only WebGLContextEvent.statusMessage property contains additional event status information, or is an empty string if no additional information is available.

Examples

The statusMessage property can contain a platform dependent string with details of an event. This can occur, for example, if the webglcontextcreationerror event is fired.

js
const canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
const gl = canvas.getContext("webgl");

canvas.addEventListener(
  "webglcontextcreationerror",
  (e) => {
    console.log(
      `WebGL context creation failed: ${e.statusMessage || "Unknown error"}`,
    );
  },
  false,
);

Specifications

Specification
WebGL Specification
# 5.15.1

Browser compatibility

desktopmobile
Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
statusMessage

See also