MIDIPort: type property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The type read-only property of the MIDIPort interface returns the type of the port, indicating whether this is an input or output MIDI port.

Value

A string containing the type of the port, one of:

"input"

The MIDIPort is an input port.

"output"

The MIDIPort is an output port.

Examples

The following example loops through all input ports and prints the type of each to the console.

js
for (const entry of midiAccess.inputs) {
  const input = entry[1];
  console.log(input.type); // should always be input
}

Specifications

Specification
Web MIDI API
# dom-midiport-type

Browser compatibility

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