HTMLDialogElement: close event

The close event is fired on an HTMLDialogElement object when the dialog it represents has been closed.

Bubbles No
Cancelable No
Interface Event
Event handler property onclose

Examples

Live example

HTML

<dialog class="example-dialog">
    <button class="close" type="reset">Close</button>
</dialog>

<button class="open-dialog">Open dialog</button>

<div class="result"></div>

JS

const result = document.querySelector('.result');

const dialog = document.querySelector('.example-dialog');
dialog.addEventListener('close', (event) => {
    result.textContent = 'dialog was closed';
});

const openDialog = document.querySelector('.open-dialog');
openDialog.addEventListener('click', () => {
  if (typeof dialog.showModal === 'function') {
      dialog.showModal();
      result.textContent = '';
  } else {
      result.textContent = 'The dialog API is not supported by this browser';
  }
});

const closeButton = document.querySelector('.close');
closeButton.addEventListener('click', () => {
    dialog.close();
});

Result

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
close_event
Yes
79
No
No
?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLDialogElement/close_event