console: count() static method
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 console.count()
static method logs the number of times that this particular call to count()
has been called.
Syntax
console.count()
console.count(label)
Parameters
label
Optional-
A string. If supplied,
count()
outputs the number of times it has been called with that label. If omitted,count()
behaves as though it was called with the "default" label.
Return value
None (undefined
).
Examples
For example, given code like this:
function greet(user) {
console.count();
return `hi ${user}`;
}
greet("bob");
greet("alice");
greet();
console.count();
Console output will look something like this:
"default: 1" "default: 2" "default: 3" "default: 4"
The label is displayed as default
because no explicit label was supplied.
If we pass the user
variable as the label
argument to the first invocation of console.count()
, and the string "alice" to the second:
function greet(user) {
console.count(user);
return `hi ${user}`;
}
greet("bob");
greet("alice");
greet("alice");
console.count("alice");
We will see output like this:
"bob: 1" "alice: 1" "alice: 2" "alice: 3"
We're now maintaining separate counts based only on the value of label
.
Specifications
Specification |
---|
Console Standard # count |
Browser compatibility
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