Notification: Notification() constructor

title

Defines a title for the notification, which is shown at the top of the notification window.

options Optional

An options object containing any custom settings that you want to apply to the notification. The possible options are:

dir Optional

The direction in which to display the notification. It defaults to auto, which just adopts the browser's language setting behavior, but you can override that behavior by setting values of ltr and rtl (although most browsers seem to ignore these settings.)

lang Optional

The notification's language, as specified using a string representing a language tag according to RFC 5646: Tags for Identifying Languages (also known as BCP 47). See the Sitepoint ISO 2 letter language codes page for a simple reference. The default is the empty string.

badge Optional

A string containing the URL of the image used to represent the notification when there isn't enough space to display the notification itself.

body Optional

A string representing the body text of the notification, which is displayed below the title. The default is the empty string.

tag Optional

A string representing an identifying tag for the notification. The default is the empty string.

icon Optional

A string containing the URL of an icon to be displayed in the notification.

image Optional

a string containing the URL of an image to be displayed in the notification.

data Optional

Arbitrary data that you want associated with the notification. This can be of any data type. The default is null.

vibrate Optional

A vibration pattern for the device's vibration hardware to emit with the notification. If specified, silent must not be true.

timestamp Optional

A number representing the time at which a notification is created or applicable (past, present, or future).

renotify Optional

A boolean value specifying whether the user should be notified after a new notification replaces an old one. The default is false, which means they won't be notified. If true, then tag also must be set.

requireInteraction Optional

Indicates that a notification should remain active until the user clicks or dismisses it, rather than closing automatically. The default value is false.

actions Optional

An array of actions to display in the notification, for which the default is an empty array. Each element in the array can be an object with the following members:

action

A string identifying a user action to be displayed on the notification.

title

A string containing action text to be shown to the user.

icon Optional

A string containing the URL of an icon to display with the action.

Appropriate responses are built using event.action within the notificationclick event.

silent Optional

A boolean value specifying whether the notification is silent (no sounds or vibrations issued), regardless of the device settings. The default is null. If true, then vibrate must not be present.

An instance of the Notification object.

TypeError

Thrown if:

• The constructor is called within the ServiceWorkerGlobalScope.
• The actions option is specified and is not empty.
• The silent option is true and the vibrate option is specified.
• The renotify option is true but the tag option is empty.

DataCloneError DOMException

Thrown if serializing the data option failed for some reason.

In our Emogotchi demo (see source code), we run a spawnNotification() function when we want to trigger a notification. The function is passed parameters to specify the body, icon, and title we want, and then it creates the necessary options object and triggers the notification by using the Notification() constructor.

function spawnNotification(body, icon, title) {
  const notification = new Notification(title, { body, icon });
}

Starting in Chrome 49, notifications don't work in incognito mode.

Chrome for Android will throw a TypeError when calling the Notification constructor. It only supports creating notifications from a service worker. See the Chromium issue tracker for more details.

• Using the Notifications API